02/11/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Dr. Casey Sacks, Doug Pierson

Dr. Casey Sacks of BridgeValley Community and Technical College and Putnam County Commissioner Doug Pierson.

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it happens. Yesterday's certainly a lot better weather than what
it has been car washes. I know, enjoyed it yesterday.
I was really hoping that the snow and ice would
all go away, but it didn't, even though it got
up to I think when I left the office yesterday,
I think it was like sixty eight degrees or something
like that. But most a lot of it has gone anyway. Now,
you just got a big mess on your hands. Coming

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up on the show today, Putnamuty commission Doug Pearson's going
to stop by. He's also a candidate for reelection, so
we'll talk to him about that race, but more more
so on the things going on to Putnam County, and yes,
I am going to get into the misspelling the governor's
press conference yesterday and how I think, to be honest
with you, that all broke during the Metro News Midday

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yesterday and by now, I'm sure you know what we're
talking about. The governor was at a press event in
West Virginia. The Virginia Park was spelled incorrectly on the
sign on the podium, and it's gone national now and
so on and so forth. I feel that he is
personally being treated unfairly over this whole thing. To be
honest with you, I want to explain why, coming up

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a little bit later on, and your calls and text
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zero eight. One other thing I do want to mention,
because I did this I talked about a little bit yesterday,
there are some folks within the City of Charleston that
think that term limits are a good idea for city
council members, for the mayor. One of those is the

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mayor Mayor Amy goodwhen she said that on the show
in the past. But a couple of council people are
really getting behind this thing, and I want to talk
about that movement coming up a little bit later on
as well. Okay, giving you enough information there. I want
to welcome into the show now, good friend and studio.
This morning, doctor Casey Sanks a Bridge Valley. How you doing.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Good morning, So nice to see today, Dave.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Nice to see you as well.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
And I'm here's the thing, doctor, I am wearing a
Marshall University.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
I no hate. I'm a commerciall fan.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Go ahead, drinking from a West Virginia State University.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
I'm a fan of them too. All right, our students
transferred to all of these places.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
What's missing?

Speaker 4 (03:25):
I mean you need some Bridge Valley swag?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just sure, just saying it's not required, because I think
that's illegal his handout. I'm just saying, just saying, I
wouldn't turn down a coffee.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Mug, Valley swag.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Or a sports car or you know something like that either.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I mean, just just saying, if you ever wanted to
hook me up, I'd take it because I'm all about
the free stuff. Good to know, thirty eight years of radio,
we never turned down to each I've been not to fun, Okay,
so I expect that next time. All right, Uh, you
you've got a really good relationship with the folks with
a cav am. I that's aw Valley Mining Institute, and
there were recently some scholarships handed out to talk about it.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
So what a nice group they had me in four
years ago, I think, to just talk about what's going
on at Bridge Valley. And several of the folks who
are part of the group are retired in the industry,
have taught at Bridge Valley at some point over the years,
and they're really interested in supporting our community. So we
got to talking and they've started to support students at

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the college. They've started to support our Summer steam Camp
every year, every single year. They're wonderful supporters of the
entire canav Valley, in our community and certainly of Bridge Valley.
This week they awarded eight students scholarships to go to
Bridge Valley, so that was fun. We had a whole
award ceremony for them and got to see all the students.
They donated enough money to support three kids in the

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local community to go to Summer steam Camp. So one
of the things we really appreciate is we don't want
any kids to not be able to come to summer
camp if it's something they want to do. And groups
like KVMI step right up and support them so that
they're paid for and they can show up, but it
doesn't matter if their families can't afford it.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now, were those scholarships for fields that somehow were related
to the council prices? Yeah? Well no, I mean that's
that's completely understandable. What are some of those things that
are related to mining that Bridge Valley has to off?

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Sure, so we do a lot in globally in manufacturing
in it. We've talked about that on your show many times.
One program that people often get really excited about is
we have a program that helps teach you about natural gas.
And so if you come into the advance into Toyota
Hall Over in South Charleston, on the main floor, we

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have an entire room that's dedicated to reading wells and
reading reading gauges, and our room is designed with water
in mind. But out in the real world, if you've
gone hiking in Kana State Forest, you may have seen
a natural gas well head and it's not water. It's
more dangerous than water. And so we do a lot
of training about how do you read those, what are
the gauges, how do you fix those, what does that

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look like? And then the coolest job that I've heard
of so far is that it's actually someone's job to
write a four wheeler around the forest and fixed gas wellheads.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, I know people that do that sort of thing.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, So we trained for that at Bridge Valley and
KVMI is interested in that kind of work.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
And we're talking with the doctor Casey Sachs a Bridge Valley.
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Academy for people that don't know what is that academy
all about.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
So it's for fifth grader, sixth grader, seventh graders, and
eighth graders. So it's for kids, and it's really an
opportunity to come to the college and learn about careers
that we help provide that we help prepare people for.
It also is an opportunity for kids to just do
hands on camp experiences. My goddaughter lives in New Jersey
and a couple of years ago her parents center to

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come stay with me for the summer, and she stayed
with me and we centered steam camp and it was
just fun. It's with other kids, and it's a lot
of hands on experiences.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Give me an example some of the things that they
actually do.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
I mean, they play with legos and talk talk about
what have you now designed with the legos? And how
does this relate that? It's it's all kinds of they
designed something in CAD when she was there, and so
you get on the computer and you create whatever it
is you create, and then they three D print it
for you in our three D printing lab. It's really
an opportunity. Actually, the kids get to play with the

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gauges that I was just talking about. So we have
all of these things that you wouldn't get to see
at home, but they do sort of feel like toys
and it's a great opportunity for kids to have some
hands on exp But.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's during the summer in June, usually in June. Okay,
is there a like a deadline that parents need to
sign their kids up for that or.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
It's it isn't yet. I don't even know what date is.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
We'll get it. We'll get it, for get it, We'll
get it. We'll get it for all the listeners at
some point, just want to make sure people don't forget
about it, at least don't.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yeah, it's really fun.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
And at this point, you know, with all of the
remote Arnie that's had to go on because of the weather,
some parents might might want to send their kids to camp.
I'm just just to get them out of the house
ale of it. I'm just so you know, mom and
daddy to break sometimes too. I want to talk about
the success of the WIN program and you talk We
talk about a couple times every time you yere with us,

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but describe what for people who don't know what the
WIN program is, what it stands for, and how successful
it's been.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Win Academy is a high school. It's a public high
school right here in the valley, and students have to
choose to want to go to it, and it's you
come in and it's designed Originally it was designed for nursing,
so it was designed for students who wanted to become
an our inn and we've expanded into advanced manufacturing technology.
So if you think about our Toyota program and helping

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people prepare to be technicians up at the Toyota plant.
That's an option to So students in eleventh and twelfth
grade come to the college and we do two things. First,
we prioritize what are the credits you need, so we
make sure you graduate from high school. So missing a
history class, you take a college level history class. Most
students by eleventh grade aren't missing that, they just need

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a body of work that counts towards their college. So
then what we do is we look at a college
major nursing or manufacturing technology, and we make sure that
the classes that you're taking completely align with that major.
So instead of taking a random science class, you take
microbiology because it's what's required for nursing and it's allowing
students to graduate from high school with an associates degree.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
I mean, and that's pretty good stuff right there. I mean,
I mean, you know, you talk about starting starting now
in your quote unquote adult life. Some of us are
waiting to become an adult in me, but you start
off with an associates degree. I mean, like, you know,
left hand has a high school diploma, right hand has
an associate's degree of pluma.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
We're really we're proud of all of our students, but
our valedictorian two years ago was a young man named
Caden and he's working at WV. Thomas Hospital now in
the open heart surgery area. Well so he's nineteen years
old and he's an and he's an open heart cardiac nurse.
And we could not be more proud of you.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
See, you know, to give me the information, we don't
want to do. But local gap, he's local.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
He yep, he's local. He lived up near PoCA High School.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Okay, cool, good stuff. And you have an open house
coming up.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
We do.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
We have an open house coming up. Anyone is welcome.
It's like I said, it's a public high school. It's
February eighteenth at five point thirty. So if you're a
student and you're listening and you think this sounds like
a great fit, bring your parent. And if you're a
parent or grandparent who's listening and you think, gosh, this
is something that my kids should be doing, bring them.
Let's let us talk to him about it.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
And you've always got fun things going on there, and
this is a little bit in the future and we
can talk about it. It was we get a little
bit closer, But I think it's in April. You have
a murder mystery production.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
So we're so excited about this. So it's a partnership
between our student Affairs student support Group and the Foundation,
and what they're doing is they're doing a murder mystery
activity in April. So you're right, it's a little far away,
but you can start buying tickets now and they're going
to sell out, which is why it was talking about
the money supports our Student Opportunity Fund. We've talked about

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that before. Any of our students could just be a
flat tire away from having to drop out of school. Yeah,
and we just don't want that for people. And so
when we raise money for the Student Opportunity Fund, it's
so that when people come in and say I have
a flat tire and I don't have the money to
pay for something like that, we can help them out
and then keep them in school because that really does
serve everyone better. But the Murder Mystery should be really fun.

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It should be a great community activity and we would
love for folks who are listening to day to come
join us.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Now. Have the tickets you can get those, I guess
on the website. Can you get Bridge Valley website.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
It's at Bridge Valley dot com.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
All Right, that opportunity program you've talked about that in
the past, doctor Sachs, is something that I think is
really really good because, as you said, with Bridge Valley
and for that matter, any institution of hire learning a
student literally could be a flat tire, a dead battery, whatever,
away from just having having to quit, you know, or

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miss or miss a lot of time one of the two.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
I mean, life happens, and we understand that, and the
whole community really does want to rally around people and
help them. It's just finding the right way to help
people constructively, and this is one of those ways that
couldn't be more constructive. It's a really great opportunity to say,
you're a student who has already made the commitment, who's
already on your way to changing your life, and we
just want to give you a little help.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
And it's just like a general fund for students, right,
I mean, so what does the process look like if
somebody If I'm a student there and I need a
little help with something, I just just go to the
office there. I just so.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
Generally students start with one of their counselors. Everybody has
a counselor. So generally the counselors say, oh, you, we
need to connect you to the Student Opportunity Fund and
then we get the process moving like that. But occasionally
students come in directly. Our foundation director manages it and
so she takes a very short intake form from them

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and then give some the money.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
It's good. It's a very very worthwhile program. And if
somebody's listening now and they would like to donate to that,
can you just accept donations? I guess your foundation.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Actually it's at Bridge Valley dot edu and on the
top right there's a foundation button, and when you're at
the foundation you can select what you're interested in giving too.
So if you just want to give to dental hygiene,
that's an option. If you're just interested in manufacturing, and
if what you want to do is support any student
who needs help, the Student Opportunity Fund is how we
do that.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
You guess, how have you done over the last three
weeks with all this winter weather we've had? I know
you've had this, yeah, for ever. It seems like it's
gone on forever and it's really only been about about
two and a half A week.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
February has been one hundred days already.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
So how have you guys managed to get through everything?
Everything got up there?

Speaker 4 (13:43):
The Tech Park does a really nice job with snow removal.
We're happy to be tenants up there. They're a good landlord.
And actually in Montgomery, my team's done a wonderful job.
But it's a smaller footprints.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, Well, and hopefully we're done with it.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
Gosh, I hope Dave the groundhot has called us.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, well, at least for a couple of days.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
A great I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Doctor Ksey Saxsonbridge Valley Community techn of College. Always a
pleasure to have you here. We'll talk again soon and
remind people where they can learn more about anything we
talk about during your segments.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Bridge Valley dot Edu.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
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want to welcome to the show now, Putnam Countymmissioner Doug
Pearson A good morning, Commissioner. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Glad to glad to be here. It's kind of, you know,
kind of difficult to follow doctor Casey Sacks sometimes, so
she's she's very good at what she did. But I'm
sure you're you're good to You've been on the shell
before though, haven't yeah about you.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
It's about a year ago today and.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
When you were first appointed, because you were appointed to
the Putnam County commission talk about the first year there.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
It's been a whirlwind.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
There's just I knew very little about county government in
Uh when I got appointed, I was a county commissioner,
I mean, excuse me, town council in Buffalo for few
years and a little bit about the government side. But
the county is just at a different level. There's a
lot been going on since then. The biggest thing for

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me when I was appointed. They'll give you like two
or three agencies or boards that you're appointed to to
sort of be the oversight for, and Animal Shelter was one.
Parks and Recreation was one, which Parksing Recreation. I had
been on that board for probably twenty years, so I
was very familiar with how that worked. Animal Shelter was
one that was new to me. Got involved in that

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and just sort of fell in love with the place.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, I want to talk a little bit about the
animal shelter because the Animal Shelter of Putnam County had
had issues. I mean, they've been very well documented. And
you and I talked not long ago and you said,
we got some really positive things going on with the
Putnam County Animal Shelter.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
No, I'll talk about it absolutely. When I came on
there the U, there was a lot of negatives that
were in the past with the animal shelter there, so
we were fighting those issues and I sort of took
it on to myself to just start going to the
animal shelter a lot, just to see what was going on,

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what could be improved, what was good, what was bad.
At that time, we were also going through some management changes.
We had some directors just resigned. They just worked themselves
to the bone.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
It's tough. They mean it really really is. It's a
tough line of work to be in.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
She wasn't good at delegating, and she was working eighty
hours a week. She burned herself out.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
So and very physically and mentally demanding.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
Absolutely there. It's a tough job because you know you've
got there's animals there that you would love to find
homes for everyone or take them, take them all, take
them myself. Yeah, that's the struggle that I have with
spending too much time with the animal shelter is the
they're trying to convince me that I need one of
those dogs and I can't take care of one yet.
So well, at some point, yeah, we probably will. But

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at that point, you know, even when you and I
talked last February, we said, okay, we got to get
a few things taken care of. One is we need
a director in place. We need to come up with
a vet of record, we need to At that time,
we were basically subcontracting our management to the Kenwall County
Animal Shelter. They helped us out for probably six months
or more of providing management for our shelter, and of

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course there was a fee that came with that, so
obviously we were trying to get away from that as well.
Since then, Caitlin Johnson, she is the director that we hired.
She was actually an employee of the Charleston Police Department
in their animal control and she had worked for the
animal shelter in the past and she wanted to come back.

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She has done a fantastic job. We've got good management
in place there now. One of the first things I
noticed when I got there was you've got one hundred
and fifty animals in there, and they like to have
a blanket delay on every night to provide a little
comfort level for them. So we've got a lot of laundry,
a lot of dishes, a lot of laundry. So that's
what I was doing. My volunteer was there's I washed

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dishes and do the laundry, which couldn't keep up. And
so I told the director, I said, I don't know
how much power I've got, but if I've got any power,
we're going to get a commercial washer and dryer here
to keep up with this laundry. And about a month
ago we started it up. So now you can walk
in there and just everything is really nice. There's not

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a stack of laundry there waiting. It's never going to
be done. Sometimes they actually had to throw things away
because it just you know, it can be cleaned, it
could not be cleaned. And now that we've got that
in place, so adoption rates are up, we still have
more animals than we can house. I mean, you do
a lot of work with the Canal County as well,
so they have the same situation. You've got more animals

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than you can find places for an unused office at
the animal shelter as a dog in it.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Now, that's the way it is in Canall County too,
I mean, and probably animal shelters everywhere.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
And you know, obviously you're still even with that adoption
rate higher and higher, and of course we are life
saving shelter. We don't euthanize just for the point of euthanizing,
and we don't so you know, we keep those animals
there and we find homes for them. A couple are
leaving today to an animal placement facility northern part of

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the state, I believe it is. But you know, we
work with a lot of those animals sanctuary like places
where they'll either keep them for a while until they
can find an adopted home or you know, they've already
got somebody that's looking for that type of a dog.
So you've got a few that are leaving today. One
we uh lovingly called Gummy because he's an older dog

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and didn't have any teeths found a home for him.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Good.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
And so's there's a home for everybody. Yeah, there is,
and uh there's a there's an animal.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
For everybody, and there's and there's everybody for an animal
that we're talking to. Doug Pearson again, Putnam County Commissioner.
I want to talk about water issues. You said you
had some water news.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
We had some good announcements that we made yesterday. I
put it out yesterday on my Facebook page just to
get it out there to people. But uh, there residence
of Custo Ridge. And if you're familiar with Buffalo at all,
it's just as you're going into Buffalo, just beyond the
Excellent Station there goes up behind the Toyota plant and

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comes out on Cross Creek Hill out there by Grit's Farm.
A lot of people are familiar with Gritz Farm. Yeah,
that's the area that we're talking about. Those people had
been waiting on the city water. They they have to
haul water to their house.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
So yesterday we attended to prebid meat for that. So
that is done. That's that's a done deal. It's going
to be that's actually going to happen. Those people have
been waiting for years for water there.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
And how many people we talk about approximate how many
families resident.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
That's probably in the fifty to seventy five range. And
you know, of course for those people, if you say,
you know, three million or whatever that is, there's no
way that those fifty people can divide up three million,
you know, there's no way that they could do that.
And there's and it would be very difficult for the
county to do that without funding. So always waiting on
funding streams for that. So that one with the pre

(23:32):
business meeting yesterday that will bids will be open on
the twenty fourth, will award a contract very soon after that,
and then that contract calls for a two hundred and
seventy day completion, so within nine months those people will
have city water that they won't have to be haul
in water all the time. And then at the same
time we were made aware of a grant through the

(23:55):
federal It was a federal grant for like two point
two eight million dollars to do Fisher Ridge, which is
further on out on Redhouse Hill. That will be about
a seventy five to one hundred houses affected there, and
then there's other funding for that to make up to
twenty percent grant, So that one is basically a no
cost to the citizens of Putnam County and we're going

(24:17):
to get water to a lot more of the residents
that have been waiting for years for that.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
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Speaker 5 (24:41):
That's lots of things going on. The nine to one
one towers, a lot of those are being updated. Michael
White and the EMS group there, they're always forward looking.
You know, you've got to think about what's going to
be tomorrow. So we've relocated a few of the nine
to one one towers and upgrading some of those that

(25:01):
are existing. So that's in the process now. And those
are things that you just don't see and most people
don't even hear about, but you know, that's something that
we're always doing to to make sure that that nine
one one service is available and in effect for everybody
that there's the ability to get a cell phone call

(25:23):
out because some of these remote areas obviously that's that's
not the case. You know, there are some dead spots there,
so trying to make sure that. Recently, just in the
past election where we did the fire levee. That's also
an e MS related issue. Every county, every location is

(25:44):
dealing with lower and lower account of volunteer firefighters. It's
just you know, you don't have as many people going
to volunteers that were in the past. So Putnam County
passed a fire levee so that we could have public
funding for a certain amount of full time firefighters. Now

(26:05):
they'll still supplement the volunteers where you know, we can't
do without the volunteer fire departments. It's it's impossible. We
won't be able to hire enough people. But we will
have some full time employees that will be available, you know,
twenty four to seven. Basically, they're going to work twelve
hour shifts. Still trying to determine the strategic location to
put those people, to make them accessible to the entire county.

(26:28):
You know, on a quick notice. You can't just can't
just stick them up in Buffalo because that's the northern
part of the county. It'd be you know, too long
to get them to Tay's Valley or to the southern
side of the county. So we've got to come up
with those strategical educations. Don't know exactly where that's going
to be yet, but they're working on that. Dave Turley
and Jamie Burgess, the leaders of that group, they're working

(26:50):
hard on that to put that all together and to
get the employees hired. But that's well on the move
that you know, we're going to supplement those volunteer fire
departments with some with some paid paid workers.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
One of the things I wanted to ask you about, Commissioner,
was we hear a lot about infrastructure, you know, in
West Virginia, and this past winter or say this past
Wink I'm already putting it behind. It's this winter that
has been incredibly difficult, especially the last two to three weeks,
water main breaks and so on and so forth, and

(27:23):
we just keep going back, it seems like, in this
state to infrastructure, and we just don't do And I'm
not saying Putnam County specifically, but I said, we just
don't do what we should or you know whatever with
Putnam County with these people. And there's a lot of
people moving into Putnam County. I know, somebody point out
to me that you know that about people leaving Putnam County,
but I that's not current, you know. And I can

(27:47):
tell you as somebody who lives right smack dab in
the middle of Tays Valley, I know what's going in.
I mean, they just put those the new homes right
down from my house, a half a mile from my house,
and I mean there's a bunch of people. Are we
ready for the influps of people coming to Putnam County?
And what are we doing to make sure we are
because you know, in the city of Hurricane, you know,
and that isn't in city limits. I think where they're building,

(28:09):
I mean, how many houses are there it's.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
Like four to five hundred.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
I believe four to five hundred houses are going to
be built there. There's other developments in in Windfield, a
couple of different developments going on there. So adding on
to some there. I know over in Buffalo they've been
doing some things over there as well. Are we are
we prepared or are we doing anything to get ready
for these people?

Speaker 5 (28:29):
In some areas, we are prepared. For one example, the
second phase of that hurricane where they were adding the
four to five hundred houses was in the Fraser's Bottom area.
They were going to add approximately three hundred. Okay, in
the Fraser's Bottom area. Of course you don't have the
traffic situation that you would in hurricane. But in Fraser's
Bottom area, the Buffalo sewage treatment plant already has the

(28:52):
capacity to handle that. So they'll just tunnel under the
river pump the you know, everything to Buffalo and it
will be treated there. So in those cases, yes, we
are prepared. Uh. Some of the issues that obviously we've
got to be looking at as a community is traffic. Uh.
You know, we we have a traffic issue already. I mean,
you you face that coming home every year, own you

(29:15):
you you ate in line. Uh, some areas would love
to have a traffic problem.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
How many times have I said that on the show.
Go down to McDowell County and I pick on those
poor people McDowell County. Uh, but any county go down
and complain to them about about a traffic problem.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
Yes, they would love to have a traffic problem. The
problem to have it is uh and uh, you know,
obviously we've got to take advantage of this New Core
situation and the fidelas that you know that have been
announced for for Mason County just right close to our
northern borders. Uh, those people are going to be living
in Putnam County. I mean, uh, there's I'm not you know,

(29:52):
slanting Mason County at all. I've got great places to
live there. But a lot of those people that are
currently working at New Core, I know them. They're living
in Putnam County now, and we need to prepare for that.
But your point taken, we need to make sure that
we've got the infrastructure in place, and I know that
there are studies in the works to make sure that

(30:15):
those are you know, I guess probably roads and transportation
is probably the biggest struggle. I think the utilities were
probably good on. You know, we can handle that from
the sewage treatment and the providing water and electric. Obviously
it's not a big deal, but we can provide those.
Transportation is going to be the issue, and so you know,
we've got to make sure that those studies are completed

(30:37):
and that we do whatever we need to to accommodate
that the best we can.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
I mean, I get back to Putnham County, depending on
what time I leave the office here four four thirty
five in the afternoons somewhere through there. Literally, Commissioner, I
live maybe two miles from the off the Tays Valley
accident yesterday, and granted a lot of people were getting
out of the house yesterday and washing cars and so
on and so over because the warm temperatures. Literally to

(31:02):
go two and a half miles, it's about twenty minutes.
I mean, I can I can call and my wife
say hey, I'm at the exit, you know, and whatever,
and it's it's about fifteen to twenty minutes to drive
to and have But again it's a good problem to have.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
Yeah, I've set in those traffic sometimes and sometimes I'll
try to jump it and just go down to the
hurricane exit and loop back in from the other direction.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Well sometimes, well, and I tell you the traffic situation
is going to get better there when the coloding exit
gets over that that's going to alleviate alleviate at least
some at the traffic. Yeah, you beat me to that,
of course.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
So you know, Development Authority actually has some property right
there by that exit that we're looking to develop as
well for businesses among that coloding exit. But that will, uh,
that will take a lot of it off of the
hurricane exit and you know, speed that up for the
whole valley.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Now before we let you go, you get us a
lot of information here today, and appreciate it. I do
need to mention this one to get to the election
part of it. You are up for real life this year.
You were appointed to the Putnam County Commission following another
commissioner leaving that you were appointed. Now you're running for
the job that you've held for the last year or so, right,

(32:12):
all right, a year now, So why should someone give
you another term on the commission.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
I'll just look at what we've done. You know, I
championed that animal shelter turnaround. That's the biggest thing that
we've done. Pretty much just took that on myself. I wasn't,
you know, I wasn't told by the other commissioners that
this is what you need to do, you need to
go fix that. We were basically an oversight board. I
was basically to attend their meetings and report back to

(32:38):
the other commissioners what's going on at the animal shelter.
And they don't actually work for the commissioners, they work
for the county managers. But I sort of took that
on and championed that myself, and you know, we have
turned that around. That's been the biggest thing that I
worked on. All of these other little things that you're
working on all the time, it's probably too much to list.

(33:01):
And of course the stuff that we've talked about here today,
I probably had ten other things, you know, that we
could have talked about. But you know, there's only so
much time. But just give me a chance to continue
doing what we're doing. Think that everybody that knows me
knows that. You know, I am a hard worker. I've
done this again for a year now. The the amount

(33:25):
of time that I've put into this is probably more
than I imagined that it was going to be, but
it's been fun. I've enjoyed it. You know, reach out
to me, you know, anybody that wants to reach out
to me and then discuss any of the opportunities or
things that are going on in Putnam County. I'll do
my best. I don't know them all yet. I'm still
trying to learn the job. I've learned that government doesn't

(33:46):
work as fast as I would like it.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Too, but less than one. Yes, yeah, it took us.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Just a while to get everything worked out of the
animal shelter, even purchasing just a simple well it was
a commercial washer and dryer, which takes a lot of
gat but still, you know, I wanted things to happen
in three weeks, and it happened in you know, three
months or six months. So give me the opportunity. I
think we're working hard for people at Putnam County. This
is my full time job now. I retired from my

(34:13):
paying job, so this is what I do. You passed
up a meeting to talk about some other things in
Putnam County that I was going to meet today to
come up here and talk with you. So enjoy the opportunity.
Love what I'm doing. Give me a chance.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
What can people read? You have a like a for
your campaign?

Speaker 5 (34:30):
You have a Facebook pa just my own Facebook page
Doug Pearson on Facebook. I've just been using that, so yeah,
just reach out to me there. You can message me there.
I'll you know, share you my information so that you
can reach out to me. Deep Pierson at PUTNAMWV dot
com is our commissioned email address. Reach out to me anyway.

(34:51):
I'll answer your questions, do what I can.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Doug appreciate you being here. Putnam County Commissioner, Doug Pearson,
thanks a lot, man, appreciate it. Good stuff. Thank you.
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Do you know if the Amazon warehouse is going to
be built in Putnam County? I don't know what the
status of that is. And if someone if I know

(39:13):
a commissioner Pearson just left the building, but if he
is listening, he or one of the other commissioners know
they have a prece event going on at I think
ten o'clock over there today. So if somebody chamber, you know,
those fine people that want to update me on that,
I don't know what the status of that is. It
was being talked about an Amazon facility. Actually, I don't

(39:35):
think that the Development Authority folks ever came out and
said it was an Amazon. It was a facility of
some sort. There were some neighbors or upset about it.
I'm not sure what the status of that is. If
somebody can let me know, I will let you know.
I mentioned this yesterday. Some discussion about term limits for
those elected within the City of Charleston, the mayor and

(39:56):
council is what we're talking about here now. The mayor
has gone on record on this show as saying that
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She does have opposition in the primary from another Democrat,
and there's also a Republican running. So if she wins
the primary, or whomever wins, there'll be a battle for
the mayor ship in November. Either way, that'll happen.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
She said that if she does win, this is it
for her. She's not going to run again. But I'm
just kind of curious, do you think there should be
I mean, we talk about term limits, it's nothing new.
Should there be term limits, you know, on a city
council seat or a mayor seat or whatever. I'll get
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(40:42):
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term limits. Those council members are Joe Solomon and Shannon Snodgrass.
Both are going to be on the show with me
to together a week from tomorrow. Should be an interesting

(41:03):
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dot com. I got an updates Commissioner Pearson happened to
be listening, which I appreciate that on the Fraser's Bottom
project texts that had asked about that it is still
moving forward and he said, followed up as a remember

(44:50):
government run slow. But yeah, that is that project is
still going on. Also, I do want to correct something
I said as far as the mayor's race in Charleston.
I said that to mayor Goodwin would have a Democrat opposition.
She does, and also said that there was a Republican running.
There are actually two Republicans running. I stand corrected. Brian

(45:12):
Hunt is one in Schahen Sheffiel Senior is the other.
And I hope I pronounced that right. So I appreciate
the text for letting me know that there are two
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(45:33):
who have two cars and five TVs are mad at
Some grad student named Rainbow says a Texter. Texas should
always be term limits. I think the number depends on
the position. I would go along with that. I certainly
would go along with that. All right, onto the governor's
signed problem yesterday. I'm sure you saw it all over
social media. The governor was speaking yesterday behind a podium

(45:55):
with a sign that said making West Virginia affordable again
and unfortunately the word Virginia was spelled incorrectly. Not not
a good look for sure, and it's made national news.
Friend of the show and of the company Million Nice

(46:16):
Lee was the first person that I saw that shared
it yesterday, and I'll be honest with you, I thought
the governor handled it well, he replied to Amelia on
social media. Quote errors like this are awful and we'll
be dealt with. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
End quote that's from Governor Patrick Morrissey. Is it a

(46:41):
good look for West Virginia?

Speaker 1 (46:44):
No?

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Does it make West Virginia look bad nationwide? Probably? But
I will say this, if anyone thinks the governor, whether
it's Governor Morrissey, whether it was Governor Mansion, governor Tomlin governor,
or any governor for that matter, or any other state
or national political figures hangs or proofreads their own signs,

(47:07):
you are sadly mistaken. When you are governor, president, attorney general, whatever,
you have people that handle those things for you. It
is unfortunate that someone didn't catch it, and now it
has gone national. But it is what it is, and
to me, my manner speak or my way of thinking,

(47:31):
this isn't so much on the governor. Folks. Now, you
may agree or disagree, and that's fine. It was not
a good look. It broke yesterday. We got text to
the Metro News midday about it. I mentioned it on
the air and it has gone national. As a matter
of fact, I googled it upstairs in the office earlier
and yeah, it's it's gone national right now that the

(47:53):
governor spoke behind a podium with his state spelled rom
You know. But what I thought was really interesting about
this is when I saw it shared on social media,
the number of people that said, well, where's the misspelling?
And I don't think that's where people. I don't think
it's so much people don't know how to spell Virginia.
I think it's because the mind sees it as as

(48:17):
being correct when it actually was incorrect. But again, I
feel badly. I hope that someone, you know, someone probably
should have caught that to make sure that it was
spelled right. But to blame the governor for this and
to say look that this is this makes you know
it's not on the governor. I mean, I'm sorry and
I'm not trying to throw the staff under the busk.

(48:37):
I don't know who did it, who you know was
responsible whatever. I'm just saying that this is, this is
I mean, a governor can't be expected to look at
everything and say, okay, that's good.

Speaker 12 (48:49):
Go.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
I mean they kind of show up. Governors do that.
They kind of show up. They get behind the podium,
They're usually handed some notes that some staffers put together,
and they may or may not look at them. I
know that from my experience in state government. Sometimes they do,
sometimes they don't. But do you arm them with something?
And I don't blame I don't. I don't blame the
governor for that. Uh, Texas. How many head coaches were

(49:15):
fired last month? No iron team but three in West Virginia.
S it's a Texter. All right. Let's go to the
capitol right now. Let's check in on the boys. Wilson, Meadows,
how you guys doing doing well? Doing well? Okay, you're
both there because yesterday, Meadows, you were out getting coffee
when I put Wilson on the air. How do you
know that's where I want? Because he told everybody you

(49:36):
were out getting okay, all right, it was real simple.
He was taking care of the team. You know I
dig my coffee. Did you get one for Wilson? I asked,
He didn't want one. I asked Stephanie. She wanted one.
I got one for her. Okay, there you go, h
it's a true story. I get the Wilson, I get
the You don't strike me as much of a coffee drinker,
are you?

Speaker 10 (49:55):
Oh that that's totally eight degrees wrong.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
I just took it down continuously. Okay, I didn't know
straight black Well, I was gonna say, and with your
schedule I could see you, you know, because after you
were at the Capitol. Today you're calling a game from
Morgantown High School over at the at the Country Road shootout.

Speaker 10 (50:11):
Right, yeah, yeah, five thirty. They're taking on Paul Blazer
out of Ashlet. It should be a really good game.

Speaker 11 (50:15):
By the way.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
You you appear to me, Wilson, to be a kind
of guy that would drink like a really frothy lap
a lap a lache something or a not. Oh yeah,
but you got it nailed.

Speaker 10 (50:26):
There's nothing better than, uh, you know, two shots of
soy milk along with some hazel nuts and a little
bit of peppermint to go on the side. Obviously you
got to get some bold foam and chocolate surf on top.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Yep, you nailed it. Yeah, Well that's it's the northern
guy coming out in you. It's because you're from northern
West Virginia. You people don't put slaw on your hot
dogs either, But that's another story for another time. Yeah,
but put on a pink shirt and go get my
cafe Lotze. You got it right, buddy. All right, what
do you guys got coming up on your big big
show today?

Speaker 10 (50:54):
House speaker Roger Hanshaw is going to join us right
off the top of you had a new conference yesterday
talking about the first half of the Esson will dive
into that Senate majority WHI Ben Queen will join us
as well, and we're going to get into e Verify today.
My man is itching to talk about e Verify.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
I don't like it well, and based on what I
saw on social media, TJ, I think some people are
interested in talking to you about it. Well, are you
saying I'm an gal alien? Is that what the s No? No,
I'm just saying that sometimes you write commentaries that unless
it responds for people, and sometimes it's not always favorable.
But that's what it's all about it's about discussion. It's
another burden on business. It's government's burden. They should do it.

Speaker 10 (51:34):
Stop putting more and more on business for people that
are trying to meet payroll.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
And frankly, the people that are putting it on have
never made a payroll in their lives. They have no
idea how hard it is. So yeah, I'm a little
see what I mean, See what I mean. Maybe he
shouldn't have had that last cup of coffee.

Speaker 10 (51:52):
I'm just saying, hey, man, I don't know how you
expect government to, you know, verify employment.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
They can't even spell the state's name right. Well he
said it, by the way, I will true. All right,
that's true. All right, guys, get off my phone. All right,
we'll talk to those guys and you'll hear those guys
that should say Coming up at ten oh six Metro
News talk Line Live from the State Capital to day tomorrow.
I'll be back later today Metro News Midday with thirteen
News and Tonight Live anchor Mande Baron and me Dave Allen.
That's me. I'll see you coming up at noon today

(52:19):
on the show tomorrow. Alexander Gazerud, who is a candidate
for US Senate as a Republican. He'll join us on
the show tomorrow. Ryan Nicholson, our producer, thank you so much.
I will see you later today. Untill then, have fun
and love somebody you see.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Sam ninety six point five in Charleston one oh four
point five Cross Lanes, telling u VRC Media Station, we're
proud to live here too,