08/04/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Gee Money, Mayor Amy Goodwin

Gee Money from The Beat on the Salvation Army’s annual golf tournament and Charleston Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin.

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I want to bring in our good buddies. First of all,
g money from our sister station one of seven, three
the Beats here. Good morning sir, Good morning Dave, Thanks
for being here, Thanks for coming into our new place
here first time. I mean, you know, we get you
guys in the beat upstairs and all over the building.
But you guys are getting a new studio, but it

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won't be as nice as mine. Ah, come on now,
I'm kidding. I'm keep also Patty Tilley with us from
the Salvation. Are we Patty? How you doing?

Speaker 5 (02:47):
I'm doing pretty good this morning.

Speaker 6 (02:49):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I'm doing fine? Welcome back to both of you. We
want to talk about the golf tournament that you've got
going up with ge I also want to talk to
you about the eighteenth annual one of seven three the
Beat's Backpacket, which is happening Wednesday on our parking not
eleven eleven Virginia Street, Eastern Charleston. We'll get into that
a little bit more, but Patty, I want to start
with you. Talk about this big event you Doug. Either

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one of you, I'm an easy interviewer eating the one
of you wants to jump in talk about this golf tournament.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
So our golf tournament, it's our second annual Red Kettle Classic,
has taken place Friday, August the fifteenth. Tea time will
be beginning eight o'clock at registration, and the event is
to help raise money for the year round programs of
the Salvation Army.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
And where's the tournament being here.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
The tournament's being held at Little Creek Golf Course, one of.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
The great golf courses. It's at South Charles. They do
a great job with that. I want to talk about
the overall mission of the Salvation Army in the in
the area.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
So the overall mission is to serve people. That's what
we're here for, to love on people, to make sure
that people's needs are met, whether that be a place
for a child after school to go before they go home,
a meal, a meal that may single mother may need
to put on her table, or at Christmas time if
a child needs presents. But the overall mission is to
serve people and to do that the best as we can.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
And you know, when you think about the Salvation Army,
obviously the first thing that pops up is the cattle
drives that you do around the holiday season. But those
drives are done for a reason, you know, I mean,
it's not just to help out during Christmas.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
No, the program's run year round January through December. Our
doors are open on Tennessee Avenue. We help in seven counties.
There are always people who are hungry, needing clothing, and
that's what we're there for.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Are you seeing a greater need for the services of
the Salvation Army here? Of the last let's say year
or two, has it been about the same? What's the
need better?

Speaker 5 (04:38):
There's been an increased need with everything that happens in
the world and the economy, things are up and down.
We could see people that last week had a good
full time job with benefits and was doing well. But
something may happen in illness or an accident where they're
out of work all of a sudden and they need
help and they don't know what to do or where
to turn. That electric bill comes in and all of

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a sudden, they don't have an income and they're not
sure sure how they're going to pay it. So they
call Vandy down at the Salvation Army, and Vandy pulls
them in and helps them as much as you can
to keep those those bills paid for their families.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Talking to Patty Tilley gy money, I want to ask
you though, I mean, uh, what's your involvement in all this?
I mean you've been a long time supporter of the
Salvation Army. Talk talk to us about your involvement.

Speaker 7 (05:18):
Yes, Dave, I am on the advisory board for the
Salvation Army, and last year we wanted to come up
with a different way to raise money. So they came
to me. They was like, uh, you know, George, do
you have any ideas? So I came up and I said, well,
you know, let's try a golf tournament.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
It went.

Speaker 7 (05:36):
It was very successful last year, so again we're coming
back again this year with our second annual Red Kettle
Classic golf tournament. So my involvement, you know, I try
to be involved as much as possible over there, not
only just raising money, but just out you know, just
supporting and and you know, letting people in the community

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know about the Salvation Army.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
And you've seen firsthand because I know you've been involved
with them for a long time. Gee, you've seen firsthand
the great things that they do here in the Charleston
area and for seven counties, as Patty said.

Speaker 7 (06:09):
Exactly, like she said, we do reach out to seven counties.
The command is right here in Charleston. But there's social services,
there is the Youth Center. There are so many activities
and so many things that goes on over at the
Salvation Army. Like Patty said, if you need help, Vandy,
She's Vandy is so awesome over there. You know, people

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called in that need help paying a bill, and Vandy
pulls them in and make sure, you know, she makes
sure that they get the resources or get the money
that they need to get them bills paid.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Talk about the social services, Patty that the Salvation Army offers.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
So Vandy and the Social Service office is open five
days a week. People can come in for things like food.
She has homeless packs ready to go so that when
the homeless people come in they have a pack that
they can take with him with food or high giene
items in it. There's a food pantry right there, so
when people come in, we're good about getting donations from
Kroger and Sam so we're able to give them fresh

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fruits and vegetables and meat and then our canned food
so they walk out with food that day to feed
their families. Utility Assistance it's a great place for kids
going back to school if parents don't have a lot
of money taking you get clothing vouchers from Vandy to
go into our thrift stores to find that clothes that
they need.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
For those kids to go back to school.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
So it's really just all right there in one spot
at three on one Tennessee Avenue.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Doing good stuff. Over there again, we're talking with Patty
Tilley from the Salvation Army and our guy G Money,
we know him as g George is also his name.
He's helping out with the Salvation Army and the sculpture. But
how many teams did you have approximately last year?

Speaker 7 (07:50):
Last year we had eighteen. Last year we had eighteen
teams and it was had a storm, and believe it
or not, all eighteen teams showed up played in a storm.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Golfers don't care and exactly.

Speaker 7 (08:03):
And you know, they walked away and was like, this
was one of the best tournaments we've ever played in.
So these are little things that we look forward to
and we hopefully hopefully this year the weather we have
nice weather, it won't rain and it would be more successful.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
I've learned in being around the golf tournaments, you know,
my entire career, that they're pretty much willing to play
no matter what. You know, golfers are a hardcore group.
Once you get them out there on the course, they're
gonna keep going. What about sponsors? Do you have some
sponsors for the tournament, like corporate sponsors or do you
need corporate sponsors? What do you need?

Speaker 7 (08:39):
We have some sponsors, but we are still looking for sponsors, okay.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
And how do people become a sponsor? And what exactly
you look like monetary donations and they.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
Monetary donations for sponsorships. We have everything from seventy five
hundred dollars down to five hundred dollars. Five hundred dollars
for a team. If anybody's interested in sponsoring or just
donating towards the tournament, they can call me at three
zero four three four three four five four eight or
visit our website at Charleston Salvation Army, CHARLESTONWV dot org

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and it's all right there on our web page under
the events tab.

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here for a moment, but gey I got you here.
We got a big event going on here on our
parking lot. We do it every year, eighteen years we've

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been doing this and thanks big shout out to folks
at Selango Law for sponsoring it. It's our annual backpack Attack.
Things are going to start Wednesday afternoon. We'll start lining
up at about three. We usually blow the whistle, fire
the gun whatever at four o'clock to get them in here.
A couple of things that you need to know parents, grandparents,
we have you. The kids have to be present, and

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we have an issue with this. Sometimes most people are understanding,
but they'll say, well, you know, my child and my
kid was at home or whatever. We got to actually
see physically see the kid. So you got to bring
the kids. We're gonna give him a backpack with everything
that they need for the upcoming school year. And you've
been a part of this. You've been a part of
it just probably since the beginning, right or eighteen years
eighteen years? Would he drug you under this thing and

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he won't let you out?

Speaker 7 (10:17):
Listen. I've been a part of West Virginia WVRC media
for twenty four years now. So this is one of
our big, our big, big events right here. And you know,
just to talk about it, Dave, I just get a
lot of chills through my body because we do want
the child to be present in order to receive the backpack.

(10:39):
We like to talk to the kids. We want to
you know, give them that extra boost, you know, just
speak to them and give them that extra boost so
when they step in that classroom, they know, hey, g
money or what he was, you know, just talk to me.
This is what I got to do. That's why we
want to see the kids and we want to put
the backpack in their hand, not in the parents' hand.
So we stress that each and every year, we know

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that some kids may not be able to make it
due to unforeseen circumstances. But again, we want to see
the child. We want to put the backpack in the
child's hand. And again it wouldn't be possible without our community.
We call them our community partners because we reach out
to them and you know, we tell them, hey, it's

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time for our backpack.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
They say, no more, what do you need. This is
the type of reaction we.

Speaker 7 (11:27):
Get with our community partners when we out there and
big shout out to Selango Law. They stepped up and
you know they are. They are, you know, our title
sponsor for our Backpack Attack, our eighteenth annual Backpack Attack.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
And the way it works is again, our parking lot
is eleven eleven Virginia Treaty, Charleston, just stuff from Charleston Catholic.
When you come in, kids will line up down the
street and they go well beyond Charleston Catholic.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
I mean almost to the newspaper.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, I mean all the way down through there and
we have and they'll start lining up early. I mean
we usually tell them to start line up about three.
They're out there about one thirty or so, the standing
in line a few end of the time, five or six,
we have them make the circle around the parking lot.
We've got other vendors here too. We have always had,
as you said, gee, we have our community sponsors that
are out there with us with other other things to
give away. And it's very orderly. We bring people in.

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You go to station one, station two, and then we
have you exit out the other side and those back.
What's what's needed in backpacks has kind of changed over
the years.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
I mean, you know, you've been there since since day one,
so we had to put different things in the backpacks.

Speaker 7 (12:26):
Now, yes, we of course a lot of the kids
are going to tablets, so of course that's why we
had to make that adjustment and not put the notebooks
in all of the pencils and things like that because
they're on their tablet. But we still, uh, we still
supply them things. We just don't supply as much as
we did because they don't need it.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, and somebody had ask about earbuds we put earbuds.
And then the reason that that is important. On the surface,
you may say why, why are why earbuds? Because every
kid in Kanaw County schools has an iPad so some
sort of a tablet, and they have to have the
earbuds in order to study, you know, if they're in
their library or they're in their classroom or whatever, so
you're not disturbing other students. That's why, to answer the

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texters question from a couple of days ago, that's why
they have the earbuds there.

Speaker 7 (13:12):
Yeah, And like I say, we try to think of
everything that child is going to need for that school year.
So again that's why we say we're we're trying to
prepare them for a successful school year. We may not
give them everything that they need, but we're going to
prepare them to start the school year off.

Speaker 8 (13:29):
Right.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
We don't do well, it's not on us, is that
what you're saying. We're giving you. We're giving you all
the tools parents. And again that'll be Wednesday. We'll start
lining up about three o'clock down the street here in
Virginia Street easton Charleston. We'll normally wrap it up by
about five thirty or six and if we have backpacks
left over, which sometimes we do, we always make sure
that those go to the schools. We'll just take a

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we'll just pick you know, pick a school and take
them and drop them off. And they got the I mean,
the backpacks always got the Beat logo on them. They're very,
very popular with the kids.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
They love them and tell you, these are some really
nice backpacks. I was just in there yesterday digging through
the boxes, of course, because we got to get started
this week today packing them. So yesterday I was in
there digging through the boxes. They're really nice backpacks. So
you're not getting something that's not gonna last. This is
gonna last your child the whole school year.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, exactly right. And again that packing process is what
we get to do here because when the when the
kids come in, we just handled the backpack. It's already
filled with everything already. But our community partners are handing
out other things too.

Speaker 7 (14:28):
Oh yeah, we have like Greed Dental Group, they will
most likely be there handing out toothbrushes and things like that.
We also have West Virginia I Consultants. They will actually
be there. Ten and ten incorporated a lot of our
community partners will be in the park a lot handing
out something. Yeah, yeah, everyone will have something to hand out.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
And we'll be talking about more as we get a
little closer. It's all happened to Wednesday. Let's get back
to the golf tournament again, Patty. I appreciate you giving
up a little little of your time here, but I
had to kill two birds with one stone. My man
g when he's in the studio here, let's hit the date,
the time, the website, Facebook, phone, whatever people need to
know about your golf tournament, which is happening a week
from this Friday.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
August fifteenth. Tea is at eight o'clock. For registration, they
can visit the Salvation Army Charleston, WV dot org or
call me at the office at three oh four three
four three four five four eight. We still have teams
available five hundred dollars for a team. That's a bargain
from what I understand, so it is many. We still
have spots open for teams, so get your teams together,

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come out and hit some balls. And we have a
hole in one tournament this year that we didn't have
last year. So the an opportunity to win ten thousand dollars.
Twist is that's not jump Jean?

Speaker 7 (15:40):
Yeah, exactly right, exactly, Yeah, that's what I wanted to
hit on that hole in one. Like, if you are
a golfer and if you want a chance to win
ten thousand dollars, this is your chance right here. Only
thing you have to do is come on out. We
have a certain we have a hole that's already picked,
and if you hit a hole in one on this
certain hole, you can walk away with ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Ten thousand dollars. Yes, that's good stuff. What if somebody
is like an individual, they can't they don't have a team.
If somebody just says, well I want a golf I
want to participate, but you know, I'm in a small company.
Can't get a you know, can you put them with somebody?
Will you take individuals?

Speaker 5 (16:14):
We can't take individuals right now, just by team. If
somebody wants to donate, they can. If they want to
come out in volunteer care.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah you need volunteers pulled off golf tournaments too.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
Yeah, yeah, they can come out and help with that.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
All right. Patty Tilly and g Money appreciate you both
being here. Thanks a lot, good luck to day next week.
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eights h. We had a text here about g Money.
It says George G Money is one of the most caring,
community dedicated folks I have ever seen a good man

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doing great things. I would agree with that. He is
a fantastic dude. I am proud to call him a cowork.
He does so much in the community that you you
don't even necessarily hear about all of the things that
that g does. Now again on the backpack attack. Remember
it's happening on Wednesday in our parking lot eleven eleven
Virginia Street East in Charleston, and we'll line up about three.

(20:24):
We'll start at four and just come on out and
bring the kids out. Kids must be present. That is very,
very key. We want to actually see the kids. And
you know we we have over the years, we've and
I've only been a part of this thing for the
last I guess three or four years, but this thing's
been going on for eighteen years. Big shout out to

(20:45):
Selango Law for sponsoring this year and all of our
community part of the all our community partners g Money
just mentioned there. We couldn't do it without them. But
the reason that we have to have the kids there
is because we don't. We kind of want to avoid
you know, we've had instances in the past unfore seeing
people say well, I need ten backpacks for ten kids
at home. Now maybe somebody's got ten kids. I don't

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know what anybody necessarily does. So if you got those
ten kids, bring the ten kids out. We'll place them
the backpacks directly in their hands. A couple of quick
things here. Over the next couple of days, you're going
to be hearing a new voice on WCCHS here in Charleston.
He isn't exactly a new voice. He's been with our
company for a while, but he's relocating from Martinsburg to Charleston.

(21:28):
Team is Daniel Woods, and ever since Kyle Wiggs took
over for Tony Cariedi on sports Line, Daniel has been
handling the morning sports on the Morning News with Chris
and Jeff. You've also heard him covering various sports stories
on Metro News Midday with us. Daniel is going to
be joining us here in Charleston to handle sports and
news as as well. In fact, we're talking about the

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Beat earlier. One of seven three to Beat is going
to be the new home at this fall for West
Virginia State football, and Daniel is going to be covering
that for us. And Daniel will join us on the
show tomorrow because as you know, when we add new
blood here at the radio ranch, like we like to
call it, I like to bring him on the show
so you can get to know them now this time around.

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Not totally new blood, but he's new to us here
in Charleston. Daniel Woods is his name, and he's going
to join the team tomorrow. So we are looking forward
to getting to know Daniel Woodsy. I'll do a little
twenty questions or maybe ten questions with him coming up
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Wonderful Classic Rock, Shockley was asked to throw out the
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He absolutely nailed it. I got the video. It's posted
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the baseball world to throw out a first pitch, go take.
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But he put that hair behind him. The velocity in
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And thanks to the Dirty Birds for having us out
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a sad note here. A voice that you've become familiar
with over the last couple of years is leaving us.
Kat Skelton, who has been a big part of our
news team for the last I guess a couple of
years or so, is leaving us to pursue other career opportunities.
I will say this, Kat Skelton was a delight to
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her future endeavors. You heard her voice throughout the day
on the news. She did a fantastic job, and so
she's going to be leaving us for other things. I
gotta tell though, a quick Cat Skelton story, all right.
A couple of years ago had her good friends from
the reptile facility over in Tays Valley, you know the one.
I'm talking about what they've got the lizards and the

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snakes and so on and so forth. I had the
gentleman Andy McKee on the show with me a couple
of years ago, and he said, I'm going to bring
some snakes in if that is okay. Well, I talked
to our HR department, Ashley, and the folks said, well,
it's okay. But you probably need to let everyone know

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about it, and I said, okay, I said that's fine.
So I sent out an email to the office day
before and throughout the office and said, we're gonna have
a gentlemaney Man McKee on the show tomorrow and he's
going to be bringing some reptiles and snakes, and studio
just wanted to let you everywhere, let everyone know you
may want to avoid the WHS studio. We weren't in

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the new studio. This was our old studio. This a
couple of years ago. Poor misus caat Skelton would not
enter the building until the snake was gone. And her
office in the area she works at is nowhere near
where the studio is. Everybody's got their thing, and apparently

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that was that was hers. She was a little bit
frightened about the snakes. So we got through it. But
I just had to tell that quick Cat Skelton story.
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from Saint Albans over the weekend, and Jeff writes about it,
and has pictures posted about it. This morning at wv
metronews dot com. A train derailment in Saint Albans Now.
It was reported shortly after eleven thirty Saturday night. The
city has closed traffic at the Boone Street Underpass, the
Walnuts Pru Street crossing, etc. Until CSX wraps up their

(26:12):
work there. So just so you know about that, and
again we've got pictures posted about it over at wv
metronews dot com. Also, you may want to check out
TJ's commentary today. He'll be on to talk about it
a little bit later on the show. It's about the
governors out of state fundraisers, one in Napa Valley and
another in Dallas. Now, it was an interesting story to me.

(26:37):
There's nothing at all wrong with it. It's perfectly legal.
It just may rub some people the wrong way. And
let's be clear though, others have had out of state fundraiserers,
including Senator Mansion. But some may say there's a bit
of a difference when it comes to out of state
fundraisers between senators and a governor. Anyway, read the commentary

(26:58):
TJ's got It post. Its posted on the website. Also
on our social media as well. Coming up on this
show tomorrow, Sean Zamaga from the City of South Charleston
is going to join us. Also, as I said, we'll
introduce you to the newest member of our radio family
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Hey you doing Hussins.

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TBT run.

Speaker 6 (31:05):
Oh yeah, it was great.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
It was great.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
It was great. Loved it absolutely.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Love, would have loved to have seen them playing for
that million dollars. Loved what was not meant to be.
But what a great run and what a great shot
in the arm for the city of Charlestone, man CVB,
the city itself, everybody.

Speaker 18 (31:20):
Yeah, it was just wonderful having them back. We were
so happy to host all the teams. I mean, I
know we focused on her that in Best Virginia, but
quite frankly, Dave, we were delighted to have all the
teams from young men and their families from all over
the country.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
Let's not let's not forget that, you know.

Speaker 18 (31:38):
It was Yeah, it was a It was a wonderful
opportunity for us to host them as well, and so
while they didn't make it, by golly, they made it
to the final four.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
That's never happened before.

Speaker 18 (31:51):
Amazing athletes, amazing competition and the one thing that we
do really well in the city of Charleston bring everyone together.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
I will let everybody know though.

Speaker 18 (32:00):
Somebody said to me when they were sitting in those seats,
I thought you were replacing these seats, Mayor, I said, yes,
I am, week, yes I am. It's a common and
so we wanted to get through TBT. It's starting and
it's going to be finished. It's going to be top
to bottom and it you know, we looked at different
coliseums and convention centers across the country, working with OVG,

(32:23):
the company that we hired many years ago to help
us manage that big facility. But when they did the
renovations the one hundred million dollars, the seats weren't touched.
And it's something that we now are filling and flooding
with the amount of uptick that we're seeing in concerts
and special events, and so it was a necessity. So

(32:44):
I brought it before the Council many moons ago, and
we had the seats and they're coming in. So maybe
the next time you are heading to the coliseum in
Convention Center later on this fall and winter, you'll be
sitting in brand new seats. So they look good, they're
going to feel good, and they're going to be brand Know,
everything is going to be powerwashed and cleaned all the
way down.

Speaker 6 (33:03):
It takes time.

Speaker 18 (33:04):
We had to schedule around this, and of course it
was also a hefty ticket as well.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Dave, I think we got a call for the mayor.
Let's go to the phones and Frank, you're on with
the mayor.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
Go ahead, Hi, Amy, Hey Frank.

Speaker 19 (33:17):
Well, first I want to say kudos kudos on Live
on the Levee and the regard of this year. It's
just been fantastic. It's just been a wonderful venue. And
I enjoy the heck out going down there every Friday
night and watching It's a special job on that.

Speaker 18 (33:31):
Oh good well, Mother Nature, she was really kind to us.
Frank this Friday. I gotta be honest with you. If
you were down there you felt the breeze. I'm not
going to say you felt a cool breeze on regatta today,
but I hear you, Frank, thank you.

Speaker 19 (33:42):
It was fantastic a issue on a house. I bought
a house and there's one right beside of it, andees
tore down and I'm on the list to have a demolished.
But it seems to be getting worse and worse. Every
time the wind blows the shingles off, the riff go
all eating sidewalk and the floor is falling in. It's
a safety hazard. And I just don't want anybody coming

(34:04):
around there just one round and falling in and getting
hurt or anything. Plus I get sued if that what happened.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
That's right, Frank.

Speaker 18 (34:11):
Have you have you spoken from to anybody from our team,
especially in the Mayor's office? Have you talked to any
of us who Have you talked to.

Speaker 19 (34:18):
Billy or Alice Bell over there house? Yes?

Speaker 6 (34:20):
Sure, sure, sure, sure sure show.

Speaker 19 (34:23):
And then Don Dion Nichols, all their Harry and Ashley.

Speaker 15 (34:28):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
Hey, Frank, will you do me a favor?

Speaker 18 (34:30):
So I can? I promise you this. I'll personally follow
up with it if you do me this tiny, tiny favor?

Speaker 6 (34:37):
Would you call?

Speaker 18 (34:38):
You could either call two people in the Mayor's office.
You can call Matthew or Andrew. Matthew Sutton is our
chief of staff. And Andrew is uh my, I always
say my right hand, my right hand, my left eye.
Uh Andrew at three oh four, three four eight eight
one seven four do me that favor. Either one of
the three of us will personally make a phone call

(34:59):
about because I need your address. I need a little bit.
I know you don't want to give that over the phone.
I wouldn't either, but go ahead and give that to me.
Call into the office three four, three four eight eight
one seven four ask for either one of those guys.
They'll take a message. We'll follow up with you and
give me a return number to hit you back.

Speaker 6 (35:16):
Okay, Frank certainly appreciate it. Yes, thank you, Frank, appreciate.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
You, sir, Thank you, Frank. It's eighteen minutes away from
ten o'clock and we got another call for the mayor
and that's why she's here. Let's go to the phones.
You're on with the mayor. Go ahead, Hello, you're on
with the mail. Yep, Yeah, you're on the air.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Go ahead, Hey, this is Mike. To come off Bridge
Road and turn and go down where the new far
Mare and the new Arby's is. Yes, sir, it's a
really great facility. They really love it. However, I know
two people who've already there's a curve, a concrete curve

(35:54):
that comes right out into the street. I mean it's
just inches from the street. I know, I personally know
two people who have hit that destroyed uh tires. Could
you come off the ramp there by Lowries and drive
down and just kind of take a look at that
curve and see what you think?

Speaker 6 (36:12):
Sure, so help me, Mike.

Speaker 18 (36:14):
If I'm coming off of Bridge Road and I make
a left and I'm heading to Parmar and Parmar is
on my right, tell me tell me at which curve.
I promise you I'll go do it. Tell me where
you'll see it, You'll see you.

Speaker 6 (36:25):
Is this a new curve? Was this a new curve
that was put up when Parmark came in?

Speaker 4 (36:30):
Yeah, brand new curve. Yeah, and I understand you really
kind of beers right out into the street. Okay, First,
you're a horrible drive. And then when I had dinner
at my Pollie the other night, it was amazing. That's
another phone calling. But look at it, Holy cat, I

(36:51):
mean that's right.

Speaker 6 (36:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (36:53):
Let me let me put my eyeballs on it, and
let me call our planning streets and traffic folks and
a special our traffic engineer Mac matt Hartline.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
Uh, let me do that, Mike, and.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
You're just a horrible driver.

Speaker 18 (37:10):
Okay, yeah, sure, I really appreciate you reaching out. Thank
you so much, Mike. I will follow up with it
as well. And just like I told the last caller
three four eight eight one seven four, I know my
office is listening and we will be dutiful and.

Speaker 6 (37:24):
Follow up on that.

Speaker 18 (37:25):
But if you'd like to call me, if you want
to check up on us, which I hope folks do
three four eight eight one seven four, Andrew or Matthew,
leave us your number and either one of the three
of us, including me.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
We make phone calls.

Speaker 18 (37:37):
At the end of every night of folks that have
either emailed us or called us or text us. So
thank you for that, Mike. I appreciate you, sir.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you. You're popular. Hey, hey, Mayor,
it's fifteen minutes away from ten. We got another call.

Speaker 6 (37:51):
Excellent.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
I think this was Dan Ryan. Is that what you say? Okay,
this is Dan Dan. You're on with the mayor. Go ahead,
good morning.

Speaker 9 (37:57):
Thank you for taking my call, sir, Mayor.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
I'm wondering and.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
If there's any of the city at Charleston Pools where
adults can swim laps.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
Thank you, Dan.

Speaker 18 (38:09):
I'll be honest with you, I don't know what our
uh what are programming is in this summer. I do
know that we have had adult lap swim, but I'll
also be quite honest with you. We we also have
a lot of kids that show up as well, but
we do have some adult swims. But I don't know.
If you want to leave your number with Ryan or

(38:32):
you want to call me three four eight eight one seven.

Speaker 6 (38:33):
Four, I'll follow up. I'll follow up on this call
with you and see.

Speaker 9 (38:38):
Sir, I appreciate it. I'll call you at three four
eight eight one seven.

Speaker 18 (38:43):
Thanks Dan, I appreciate you, and congratulations on the lap swim.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
That's that's hard. That's hard work. Last one, that's hard work.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Dan.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
We appreciate your phone call for ten minutes away from
ten uh, Tex says hey, Dave, you can ask the
marriored to updates on the Capital Connector project. Oh, thank you,
timeline to start question mark, Thank you.

Speaker 6 (39:00):
So much, sooner rather than later.

Speaker 18 (39:02):
Roma's completely finished with our planning process, and you know,
we hope to get construction underway soon. It's a massive project.
If you haven't heard about it, we have been working
on this project for many a year, but it was
a large project in total, twenty seven million dollars of
federal funds. Thank you to Senator Shelley Moore Capito who
really championed this for us. And we went to her

(39:23):
and she said, how may I help? And so Magic
Island to the thirty fifth Street Bridge, and a lot
of folks. As a matter of fact, two of my
friends said this past weekend they were riding on the
far side, the west side that expansion that happened under
the Jones administration, how lovely that was. And I said, well,
lock it in. It's going to happen from Magic Island
to the thirty fifth Street Bridge as well, expansion of

(39:45):
bike lanes and foliage and mini parks and some great
art and really making it from east to west a bikeable,
walkable city, so sooner rather than later, which is.

Speaker 6 (39:57):
A positive, right, it's a positive.

Speaker 18 (39:59):
But let me also be quite honest with you, folks,
and I appreciate this very much. So it's going to
be a massive improvement. We're a river city. We should
utilize the river and we will, especially upon completion of
this massive twenty seven million dollar project we've been spearheading.
But there's going to be a lot of construction, Dave.

(40:19):
There's going to be a lot of upset along the way.
It just it is what it is. We're going to
be as commodating as possible and certainly going to keep
traffic flowing. But make no mistake about it, all of
the wonderful things that Frank was talking about this morning
when he called in Dave about you know, Live on
the Levee and regatta and oh, by the way, USA
cycling and so all of those things are also top

(40:41):
of mind and tip of tongue for our team as
we try to navigate moving forward and construction and infrastructure improvements,
which has always been our number one in our office,
while still maintaining all of those awesome, great events. So lucky,
like fore warning is fair warning, Dave is out the
fair warning.

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Speaker 18 (41:15):
Yeah, there's a reason. I'm absolutely so thrilled. Just a
couple of weeks ago we swore in another officer. Today
we are swearing in five new Charleston Police officers. I'm
absolutely thrilled. In a time in which it's very hard
for recruitment of officers across the country, our CPD team
is doing an amazing job of recruitment and so I'm

(41:38):
really thrilled to be able to swear in five new
officers here before too longs though, thanks for letting me
dip out early. But I also will say I know
your guest coming up, Mayor Jerry Marco of Elkins. I'm
going to be with Jerry actually this week. The West
Virginia Municipal League, which I'm the vice president of, is
coming up, and we host conferences every year, amazing conferences.

(42:02):
I'll be with the I'll be with the mayor there,
but I'll be with all the mayors from across the
state and city council members from across the state, and
city managers and clerks and just an amazing opportunity to
get together and listen and learn see what other people
are doing. Quite frankly, still good ideas from not only

(42:23):
our neighbors, but also we have some amazing guest speakers
that are coming in. And oh, by the way, I
get to introduce one of our guest speakers, and it's
Hoppy Kurchable. He's going to be one of our keynotes
during the conference.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Isn't he retired?

Speaker 6 (42:36):
I don't think so. I mean, it doesn't seem my tea.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
No, he's retired. He's retired from the Daily Show. I'd
be interested to hear what Hoppy's going to talk about.

Speaker 18 (42:46):
I know, I'm really excited about it because you know
in the room that's his crowd, Dave. I mean, those
are folks like me who have you know, I was
thinking about as I was writing his introduction. I've known
him for over twenty seven years and have worked with
them certainly in my former life quite you know, daily
sometimes especially during the two different governor's offices that I

(43:09):
work directly as communications director. And so he's a smart guy,
he's a neat guy. He's engaging, and it will be
really interesting to hear his keynote, and also he's such
a great guy to offer his time for questions and answers.
So it is going to be interesting because you know,

(43:29):
the West Virginia Municipal League is a nonpartisan group of
the folks who do the heavy lifting, boots on the
ground and all of your You know, we have two
hundred I think this is right, two hundred and sixty
three cities, towns, and villages all across the state of
West two.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
I think it's too thirty two.

Speaker 6 (43:48):
Okay, that's we're gonna hitting now.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
I think it's two thirty two. I may be wrong
about it.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
Did you just get that? Will Susan No economy, No.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
I knew that from my secretary eight days.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
Is that right? I'm gonna double check.

Speaker 18 (44:01):
I think it's higher than that, but all right, let's
see your under I'm not but you know I've got
I've got two kids in college, so I've got zero
dollars in this wallet. But I appreciate you allowing me
to dip out early to swear in these police officers.
And I'm excited to listen to Mayor Jerry Marco later
on your show. He's an amazing person, really neat background.
Really neat guy. It'll be a great show because he's

(44:23):
just a he's a dynamo, Dave, He's a dina.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
I've never met the gentleman, never interviewing him, so I'm
looking forward to that. Yeah, it's really good, all right,
swear in some officers a joy.

Speaker 6 (44:31):
Well, thank you appreciate it. Thanks for the calls today.

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hotline three zero four three four five fifty eight fifty
eight Tony the Taylor text three zero four nine three
five five zero zero A. The mayor had to leave
us a little bit early today to go swear in
five new police officers. If she's listening right now, though, Mayor,
your boy here was correct. West Virginia has two hundred
and thirty two incorporated places, seventy seven cities, one hundred

(47:43):
and forty eight towns, and six villages. I did retain
something from my days in state government at the West
Virginia Secretary of State's Office, two hundred and thirty two
as the number of municipalities in West Virginia. She didn't
put money on it, so, and I think it probably
would beune ethical for a mayor to gamble on the
on the air. To be honest with you, tex says Dave,
and mentioning upcoming sports broadcast, the one thing I would

(48:04):
love to see happened. WVU football and basketball broadcast returned
to WVRC media. The best days we're hearing Tony Coridian
Crew on with Steven Jenny on Friday morning's preview. In
the next game, West Virginia Radio, please trying to get
MSN the mouth in their sports network back, I'd say
to V one hundred specifically, noted says the texture some
things are out of Dave's hands, though, just so you know,

(48:25):
text says about Friday's showing the player from EMBERLND Drive
who was making gestures to the Best Virginia fans. That
kid and that was in quotation marks is thirty one
years old. There was what the texture is referring to
was at the conclusion of the Best Virginia loss, the
young man who was making some sort of a gesture.

(48:46):
One of our textures had an issue with it, and
I think I had Strawn on the air with me.
I think Jim, you know, may have said something like, well,
it's just kids being kids, and you know it's it's
over now. At the text it's over now, though, all right, Texas, Dave,
why is it? The mayor will take calls, but Riley

(49:10):
Moore or Capitol will not. You would have to ask
them about that. I guess we certainly would accommodate them
if they would like to or any elected official that
wants to come on the show to take phone calls,
They're certainly welcome. I would say though, that for no
matter who is in that position of a Shelley Moore, Capital,

(49:32):
Riley Moore, Carroll Miller, any of those, Jim Justice, You're
probably going to get a lot more phone calls than
with all due respect to mayor a good one or
any mayor, probably going to get a lot more phone calls,
and they may not be quite as quite as nice.
I will say, though, with all due respect to all
of our elected officials, the lack of true town halls,

(49:54):
to me is quite worrisome, to be honest with you,
and I'm I don't care who the elected official is. Republican, Democrat,
doesn't make a difference to me. I think you think
you need to be out in public. I do. Texas,
Dave Economy enter Trump is starting to crumble, still waiting
on dollar fifty gas, fifty nine cent dozen eggs. What
we see is coffee up ten percent, red meats up

(50:19):
thirty percent, cars up five thousand dollars. Take America back
again about fifty years As a Texter, DJ Meadows, who
will be taking us back I don't know what that means.

Speaker 21 (50:30):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
He and Dave Wilson will be hosting talk line covered
up the how are you missed?

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Mister?

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Depending on your perspective, I guess what about this editorial?
You are you ruffling feathers again? I'm just writing what's
out there? All right? There was an email. I know,
go ahead, I know you're gonna talk about it on
the show a little bit, but give us.

Speaker 21 (50:47):
There was an email that went out in mid July,
and it was a fundraising email. And look, if you
go to run for office, you have to fundraise. I
don't fault anybody for that, but this email quote talked
about multi day retreats that promise an unforgettab experience featuring
delicious dining, engaging activities, and the opportunity to connect with
fellow supporters in truly remarkable settings. That came up from

(51:07):
a campaign staffer for Governor Morrissey. So he's going to
be holding fundraisers in Napa Valley, California, coming up, Dallas, Texas.
There's one supposedly that's going to happen in West Virginia
that hasn't been named yet. Look out of state campaigning
a fundraising, I should say, is really nothing new. It
may be somewhat new to a gubernatorial race or re

(51:28):
election campaign for governor in West Virginia. You haven't seen
governors do it here, at least not that I can find.
But plenty of governors have done it. Ron DeSantis did
it in Florida in twenty twenty one. Scott Walker did
it back in twenty twelve when he was trying to
raise money off that referendum and reelection or recall campaign
he had to go through. So, you know, is it
political status quo? Is it a good thing, is it

(51:50):
a bad thing? Does it help West Virginians?

Speaker 3 (51:52):
Do they care? I don't know.

Speaker 21 (51:54):
Voters can be the ultimate arbiter of that. I'm simply saying,
here's what's happening. Folks deserve to know what their elected
officials are doing in terms of how much money they
raise and how they raise it.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Well. I will say this about Dessandas and Walker, though
those are both guys that had national interests.

Speaker 21 (52:11):
They were both running for president. I think Walker and
two things can be true at the same time. I mean,
he raised money for governor and he raised money for senator.
Talking about DeSantis, Joe Manchin did this in twenty twenty
night big fundraiser in Houston. So I'm not being projorative
of the governor. I'm just saying, here's what's going on.
You the people, can make up your mind what you
think about it. You can read that comment share for yourself.
It's posted at the website. Mister Meadows, mister Wilson coming

(52:34):
up with talk Line.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
I will be back on this show tomorrow as we
will be talking to Daniel Woods. Also Sean Zaniga from
the city of South Charleston. See you later today I
Metro News Midday with thirteen News and Tonight Live anchor
Amanda Baron and me. We'll see you later till then,
have fun to love Somebody. Final w s A M.

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