October 28, 2025 • 53 mins
Rich the Realtor, Delegate Tristan Leavitt on development in Eastern Kanawha County, Megan Cutlip on Saturday's Mac and Cheese Cookoff at the Capitol Market, and Charleston City Councilman Emmett Pepper on Charleston Land Reuse Agency Roundtable Meeting today.
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councilor Emmitt Pepper go'll stop by a little bit later on.
There's a meeting this afternoon at the City's Service Center
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located over on Corier and it submis the Charleston Land
Reuse Agency and it's designed to give some updates in
some of their projects. We'll get into that with the
Council of Pepper coming up with delicate. Tristan Levett, Republican
from the fifty third, is going to stop by to
talk about some development on the eastern end of Kanawac County.
How about some macaroni and cheese. Everybody likes mac and cheese.
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Annual mac and Cheese cookoff happening this Saturday at Capitol Market.
We'll talk to making a cut lip about that, plus
your calls and text before we get to our first
guest this morning. Though this just in within the last
fifteen to twenty minutes. Trick or Treating in Kanawa County
was originally set for this Thursday night. It's being moved
now to Friday night because of expected rain in the area.
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Because it's going to rain, we're moving trick or treating
from Halloween nights, I'm sorry, from Thursday night to Friday night.
So more of that coming up a little bit later on.
There's a statement expected to come out from the Canawa
County Commission about that a little bit later on. Of course,
that will impact trick or treating within the city limits too,
So just in trick or treating in Kanawa County and
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the city of Charleston and all the other cities that
was scheduled for Thursday night has now been moved to
Friday night because of expected rain. More than that coming
up a little bit later on. Also, we've been talking
about trick or beats going on tonight over at Gomart Ballpark.
All tickets are gone, So if you didn't get your tickets,
you are out of luck because they are all gone.
Eye along with my coworkers. At about thirty five hundred
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kids will be there Tonight's go Mart Ballpark, but all
the tickets for that are gone. So got you caught
up on the news, Bigley Biggly Wiggly Hotline three zero
four three four five fifty eight to fifty eight Tony
the Taylor text three zero four nine three five five
zero zero, Welcome and now are good to friend and
Buddy Rich, the realtor for mex Realty. Hey doing my friend?
Hey good? Are you I am doing? Five? Did you
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make it to the end of the World Series last night?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
No, definitely not. Two thirty this morning is when it ended.
Dodgers coming out on top with a Freddie Freeman walk
off at exactly two twenty seven a m. This morning,
the eighteenth, anning. The Dodgers lead that series two games
to one. I did not make it. I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I guess there would be a handful of people though
still that are diehard fans that would stay up for
that well.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
As Chris Lawrence said this morning, I was driving in
on the morning news. He said one of the handful
of times he can remember going to bed listening to
the game on the radio and then waking up and
the game was still on when he came into work
this morning while eighteen and so let's know with you.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
My friend, oh, you know, just trying to just moving
and shake him. Have a couple of new listings out
there they'd like to talk about a little bit today.
And also, if you don't mind, like to just kind
of mention that the Ronald McDonald House. I had an
opportunity to volunteer there this last week with our call
that out were realtor colleagues, and they just do such
good work over there, and they're housing families when their
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children are sicking in the hospital, and some of those
families don't have any other options, and they treat them
so well. It took us on a tour of the facility.
Well we actually the realtors and I from the board, uh,
cooked them some chicken soup and had some bagettes and
that kind of thing, which is so nice to do that.
But I just encourage everybody to consider donating to the
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Ronald McDonald House, especially it's coming holiday season. They need
the donations. Their pantries are a little bit thin, so
it's just such a good cost to consider they do.
They just do such good work there.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
It is.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It is and something you know, people and of course
monetary donations are always always appreciated. But one of the things, uh,
that that you can also do for the Ronald McDonald
housees things, but that is donate.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Some toys, you know, for for that have to be
new so to find this out, they have to be new,
so they get careful about the germs and those kind
of things.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
As they should.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So, uh, the other thing, they are still collecting the
you know, the the lids or the little pop tops
from the soda cans that pull off there those little
I don't know what you call those aluminum pull things
that used to pull pull tabs or whatever those are.
They're still collecting those. And they of course said, you
know power big numbers, they collect a lot of those.
And they took a huge donation and I think they
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had like eighteen hundred bucks worth of it when they
got it donated. So it's easy to drop off if
you're not saving those, it's an easy way to contribute
to their costs.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
And so lots of things you can do.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
If you're a business, you could do you can host
a toy drive, those kind of things to help you sports.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Ronald McDonald house. It's good charity.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
It is.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Indeed, again we're talking to Rich the realtor. All right,
you've got a couple of listenings you want to do. Yeah,
so I have a new one in Windfield. It's in
Mariner's Landing. It's it's one thirty four Waterside Circle. It's
actually in my neighborhood. And strike one, strike one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So although we give out the good candy, so okay, hallo,
there is that. Yeah so the uh so this house
is four bedroom and two and a half bath. It's
beautiful brick home. It's a Leslie built home. Like though
those houses are around there. It is a flat level
lot subdivision is just it's primo for all the school
systems there, and you know it's it's an ideal place
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in my pan to live. Of course I love it there.
But this house is listed A five nineteen nine. It
is also including a home warranty that comes with that.
So loving that, loving that listening. That just went on
the market yesterday. It's one thirty four nine. And then
there's another one by colleague, Oh sorry, one thirty four
Waterside Circuit.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Sorry. Yeah, and it's five nineteen nine. Yeah, okay. And
then my.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Colleague at Meek Trioty Group Kingsley Moody has one also
in Winfield.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You could almost throw a rock at it. Cross the
don't blackwater, don't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But it's it's one zero four or five four Winfield Road,
So it is on Winfield Road. But it is a
river lot, and so it's got a beautiful back porch
that's covered and just and enjoy the view there from
the Kall River.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
It is four seventy nine nine.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
It's three bedroom, two bath, could be four bedrooms as
a finished basement, has some space downstairs that is finished,
no window or anything in there, so probably want a
praise as a four bedroom, but you certainly have the
option to do that.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
We're where's the best place for people to go to
look and we'll hit this before we let you go.
But if they want to go see the pictures.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, So for me, I text your agent directly, you
have them set it straight up. And if you don't
have an agent, I'm happy to help you and just
text me directly and we'll give them my contact info
certainly at the end of the segment. But what the
realtors will do is set you up on search within
our multiple listing service. The secondary sites buy those pictures
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and all of that information from our email less So
if you're set up on the email less, you don't
have to do all of that legwork yourself, so you
don't have to go to those sites that rhyme with
Willow and.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So that'll just directly email you all the listings that
match your criteria, or also email you anything new that
gets listed, so you'll wake up to an email or
you'll get three or four emails throughout the day. If
there's a list of day, it just emails it directly
to you and you don't have to do the legworks.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So how about commercial properties anything you want to a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And we got a couple of investment things that we're
doing currently and working on a ten to thirty one
exchange through through Meeks and and looking at an apartment
complex to exchange that with. So there's some commercial activity
going and another one. I just need one more domino
to fall that's in the valley.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
It's kind of a big one.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So we're hoping that we can get that other domino
to fall shortly.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
So talking to Rich the realtor client of Meek's Realty,
how is the market overall?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It's a little slower. I mean, that's the truth of it.
The buyers have backed off a little. I think that
This is my opinion. Of course, all of this is
just my opinion. Sure, but the you know, the the
help look of the economy and coming into the holiday
season traditionally it goes down a little bit where people
are going to spend a little cash on Christmas and
holidays and that kind of thing. But the uncertainty of
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what's going to happen in twenty twenty six, and then
it's tough to look at a thirty year mortgage and
not know exactly where you're going to be. If you
have a job issue going on, there's layoffs or whatever
that kind of stuff is, it does create some uncertainty
and then a slow down in the market. The market
hasn't really slowed down, but the days on market for
listings have increased some.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
And we do want to remind people that even though
that you know your office is based in tays Valley,
you're all over, you're not just for sure, and I'm
not just tays Valley and Off Valley hunting.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Charleston and on the outskirts of both of those inside
the state of West Virginia.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, for sure. One question I've asked you in the past,
but in case people didn't didn't hear when you've been
on before, is I got a house. Let's say I
have a house and it's it just needs a few
repairs here or there. Now, every situation is different. I
completely get there, and I'd like to give umbrella advice,
but just a few little things here and there. Do
you find that most buyers like to fix it up
and then sell it or sell it as is?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It's way better to fix it up and then sell it.
So I did a visit last night.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Kind of how we start is the visit into the house,
Let's look at what the conditions are and then start
making recommendations on touch up paint or you know there
was in this case that's last night, it's going to
be in South Charleston, that they had some damn around
their flashing of their chimney, their roof was replaced, that
that damage on the ceiling.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Needs to be repaired.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Excuse me, And then those are you know what happens
when buyers will walk into the house is they're looking
at deterrence and every time they see another deterrent, it
just piles on and piles on, and by the end
of their uh, their viewing, then if they've got enough deterrence,
that'll they'll just walk away, you know. So I would
always encourage people to take care of those if you can,
If it's reasonable, you should take care of it. You're
gonna get your money back on most of it.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
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on your mind? Now, I'll just say that.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You know, if you're all realtors aren't the same. And
you know, one of the things that I like about
my job and that I take satisfaction is to be
the source of all your referrals. So if I'm on,
if I'm representing you as a buyer and we get
into contract and we get that closed, it's so rewarding
to do that. But then you've really become friends with
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your clients at that point and you become their source
of referrals. Are going to need a plumber down the road,
or an electrician or a gardener or whatever that is.
I'm just a source of all that stuff. I mean,
if you need it, rich the realtor has it. So
if you're thinking about that, I wonder who I could
use for whatever project that is, I'm likely to know
two or three people who can do that for you.
(12:29):
And I find that rewarding also keeps me connected to
the clients. You know, and builds that relationship with them.
It's one of the things I really enjoy.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Well, it's the best way to reach you. My direct
number if I could stop choking.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
My direct number is three oh four nine three two
seven four eight eight three oh four nine three two
seven four eight eight. You can Rich me at our
cliin with a k at meeks Realtygroup dot com. It's
a good email for me, all right, Rich as always
appreciated the being Are the pens started out pretty good,
didn't they?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
They one again last night? So seven or yeah I
was last night.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So Sid got his seventeen oh one assists so he's
starting off good.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Can't believe he's thirty eight years old. Yeah, all right,
Rich surrealtor client, appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot,
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four nine three five five zero zero eights. I'm gonna
talk about macaroni and cheese coming up in the next segment.
The mac and Cheese cook off happened to this Saturday,
a Capital market also Charleston City Council wan Emmitt Pepper.
I'll joined us a little bit later on as well.
And again the news that we've brought you at the
top of the hour. Due to expected rain, the trick
or treating in Kanawa County has been moved from Thursday
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to Friday nights, so it'll be on the traditional Halloween night.
Just so you know, it will not be on Thursday
night as originally planned. That announcement coming out really within
the last thirty minutes or so, so trick or treating
will not be on Thursday night in Kanawha County. It
will now be on Friday nights. Want to welcome in now,
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good friend, Delegate to Tristan Levin Hewy, You doing, man?
Speaker 12 (16:58):
Great?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
How are you? You had a few kids, don't you?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
I do.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
I'm going to mis trick retreating now I'm flying out
to Israel Friday night.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
So I'm really sad about this.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Israel.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
Yeah, for ten days.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
What are you doing in Israel? I mean you don't mind?
Speaker 12 (17:08):
I just yeah, looking around, well, going with a group
of other elected officials and yeah, just going to you know,
try and try and better understand where things stand right now.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Okay, it'll be really interesting. So there was a meeting
held last night and had to do with some economic
developments in the Bell area.
Speaker 12 (17:27):
Is that right to talk about that? At the Bell
town Hall? So this first came up. Some people might
be aware that about a week and a half ago,
Apple Latch and Outlaw Trails had their groundbreaking and they
are at that site across from Riverside and the Walmart
down there in past Bell and it was a great event.
But that is an area that is really going to
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see some growth because of this Apple Latch out Lot
Trails is anchoring it. A lot of a lot of
other small businesses have kind of been on and off
around there, but one of the things we wanted to
do was find a way to help some of them
coordinate more so that with each stage they can know
what growth to expect, how other businesses can capitalize on that,
and how those thinking about starting businesses can can be
a part of things. And so we had a meeting
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last night at the Bell Town Hall and it was
really great. We had folks from Workforce West Virginia, the
Regional Inner Governmental Council, the Upper Kannaw Valley Economic Development Corporation,
which runs a Cana Upper Canav Valley Chamber Commerce and
Cannav Valley Tourism, as well as other small business owners
people think about starting businesses, and so it was a
really good opportunity for people to discuss the developments there
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and try and figure out how we can make.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
The most of those.
Speaker 12 (18:35):
Some great takeaways and I think some real opportunities that
came out of it as people shared what their needs
were and then what they could offer to each other.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
And you know, we've had on numerous times on the
Local show and also on the Metro News Midday. We've
had Eric and the folks with the Trail system on
the show Man that that is going to be something.
Speaker 12 (18:52):
It'll be great and like I say, it's really going
to anchor other other great development. So you've got app
Latch and Outlass side by Sides that has started up
just to be a to still provide services there. And
you've got other things, you know, restaurants. Danny Bowles who
runs Bulls Boys Barbecue is going to start a new
bar and grill up there in Campbell's Creek just because
of the growth we'll see from this, and it's it's
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really exciting events that the Tompkins is a great venue
there at that historic Tompkins House in Cedar Grove. And
again all these all these businesses are able to expand
because of the growth that is going to come from
this and that they are already seeing. So that's exciting. Again,
we want to capitalize on it. And not too many
people are aware of the Upper canalv Valley Chamber of Commerce.
It only got restarted the last couple of years, so
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right now they've been kind of primarily Montgomery Smithers, but
they they are, you know, their goal, their mission is
to serve the entire Upper Canal Valley, and so a
lot of these other businesses that I talk to, we
want to get them involved that again they can they
can know what's coming down the pike and know how
they can best use it to help them succeed.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
What's one of the biggest misconceptions that you hear about
the Upper Canal Valley.
Speaker 12 (19:54):
It's a really good question. I think it probably is
just that there's there's kind of a there, there's an
irony that on the one hand, there are these really
exciting things that are happening. On the other hand, most
people that you talk to feel like nobody cares about us.
Most people that live up there say we've been totally forgotten.
You say, well, it's actually quite a bit going on,
but a lot of people don't hear the updates, and
so I think recognizing that there is some real need
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in the area. But there are these exciting developments and
people should, people should get involved. A lot of people
feel like things are never going to change, and I
understand that, and so being able to see, you know,
tangible progress and things open up and stay open rather
than just a cycle of opening and closing and someone
else comes to that space. I think that's important for
people to see real progress because a lot of it depends
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on people. People being hopeful, the willingness to start doing business,
depends on the belief that you can make a work.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I mean, look, if the locals don't buy into it,
you got nothing. And as somebody who was around in
southern West Virginia when the ha Fil McCoy trail system
really got going about twenty hard to believe it's been
twenty twenty odd years, but had there not been the
buy in down there from the people in the Gilbert area,
the Mingo County, Logan area, Logan County, it would have
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never happened. You got to have the local buy in.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
From people, yes, and again to do that, we need
people to be informed. So we want to keep talking
about this at every opportunity, every way we can to
say good things are happening number one, Number two, Come
get involved, be a part of them.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
What is it that you I mean, obviously you're going
to see a lot of growth there over the next
couple of years. That's the plant. But on your wish list,
what what would you what are you in need of?
I mean, I know a little bit of everything, but
first one or two things you say, hey, we really
need this. What would it be this or that?
Speaker 12 (21:36):
I think there are a lot of there are a
lot of resources that are available, but there's still some
specific grants. For instance, Eric and Chris, Eric Lark, Chris Ingram,
they are seeking after particular grants to make sure they
can get sewer and water up there at the top
of that site. That is a cost prohibitive development, and
sure they need, you know, grants from things like the
Avalachian Regional Commission. That's a key thing is grants in
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that area, focused focus there particularly. I think the second
thing is again just people willing to invest invest in
new businesses to support what's going on there. Again, you
have these these these new businesses there, and and you
have aside from the tourism side or the recreation side,
you've got things like clean Seas in bell Their their
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developer was there meeting last night. Eminate is a group
that is looking to put in solar facility or solar
panels over where the Mammoth Cole site was, and so
we also need other growth around them. So it's not
it's not a there's not a single silver bullet, but
just there's got to be grants there. There does need
to be some some help to get some of these
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things off the ground. But beyond that, just people paying
attention to the area saying this is a place where
I could come. I could build a facility right here
that's going to benefit from being next to clean seas
that's doing the plastic burning, and this this is somewhere
where there would be some positive You know, we together
we can accomplish more than just if we were doing
this alone.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
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sometimes we fail, all of us, fail to take a
couple things into account when you talk about things like this,
when you're talking about these trail systems. And again I
got a little background in this from the hat film
McCoy trail is that it's not just about the trail system.
I mean you think about if you if you and
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so much time you're going to spend on the beach.
You're going to hit up the restaurants, You're going to
hit up the gift shops and you and this is
what's going to be needed with this trails, This this
whole trail thing up there is you're going to need
all the other stuff to go with it because you
can only spend so much time actually out there doing that.
You're going to come off of it evnch and you're
going to want to go grab dinner, you know, grab
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a cup of coffee, grab a beer, you know, hit
up a gift shop things of that nature.
Speaker 12 (24:07):
Yes, Canan Valley Tourism last night highlighted that they are
creating a database just of every attraction, including restaurants and hotels,
but all kinds of other things because again, people are
gonna come here. How blatch you out law trails will
be able to host national tournaments. Tournament is the wrong national.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Competitions alleans competition competitions.
Speaker 12 (24:25):
Yeah, so it will be the largest outdoor trail system
in the country eventually, and so this will be a
prime location for these competitions. And again, people coming for
the first time, maybe they're only time, so you know,
to Charleston, West Virginia, they want to see what there
is to do and so.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
And generally speaking it's with a with a large radius.
They just not just going to be two miles down
the road. I mean they're going to come into downtown Charleston.
They're going to want to you know, head the opposite
direction as well to see what the area has to offer.
Speaker 12 (24:50):
Absolutely, so you know, groups like the Charleston Area Allians
have done a great job. Meant there are a lot
of things focused here in Charleston. But again, that eastern
end of Kennaugh County that they need to fall a suit, right,
We need to get things ready for when these people
come and visit.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
And we talk about the need for lodging and hotels
and things of that nature, and it's huge. It's huge
with a lot of these things that are going on,
and this is going to be I mean, so look,
if you're an entrepreneur and you're looking for a way
to get in on this thing early, they're gonna want cabins. Now.
They stay in hotels, you know, your Hamptons, and I
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mean they'll do that, but primarily the people that do
this kind of thing, they like the whole rustic cabin feel.
So look, if I got some extra money and I'm
looking and I'm in that part of the world, I'm
starting to look at some property right now and seeing,
you know, how can I do a cabin you know,
with a big front porch and everything on it.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
I love that And I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 12 (25:40):
And again the Tompkins, you've got a kind of bed
and breakfast right there. One of the people that attended
last night said he's looking Starrings the camper rental business,
because sure he realizes the opportunities there. So I think
there's major opportunities right now. You know, we just want
to make sure people are making the most of them.
Where's the best place?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I mean, you're always welcome on this show, you and
others to talk about this, but is there sure like
a source like a website or social media where you
can learn about all of that? I know there's probably several,
but is there a couple of things?
Speaker 12 (26:05):
It's that was one of the discussion items last night
was that there hasn't really been a single place to go,
and so that's one of the things I'm looking at,
is how to coordinate. You've got stuff from all the
way up at very high level development and water, you know, management,
all the way down to again the Chamber of commerce,
and then how do you inform the public? I am
if people want to email me Tristan tr I S
T A and dot L E A v I T
T at WV House dot gov. I'm putting together a
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list and again primarily focused on the fifty third district,
but just from there we're going to come up with
some more public facing way people that want to get involved,
that have a business, the uk V E d C
dot org, I believe, or google it or google it
up Burgnot Valley Economic Development Corporation. They have a lot
of resources on there. Again that's more focused on businesses.
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But between those, we're going to try and come up
with more ways to make sure we can get this
out to the public.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Do you have any more public meetings planned on the
schedule now?
Speaker 12 (26:57):
I think I think the next stage is for us
to kind of assess again with all these groups and
all the kind of people that met with them yesterday,
what needs come out of that. So we'll take stock
and we'll see if we have another one, will announce it,
We'll get people involved and let people know what the
next steps are.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
All right, we'll have you back on the show when
you got some news. Force you always welcome here, Republican
Delegate to Tristan Levitt from the fifty third. I appreciate
you being here, man, Exciting stuff going on the Upper
Canal Valley. Appreciate you telling us about it.
Speaker 12 (27:23):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me, And it's
exciting for sure.
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I'm sad I'll miss it and I just met earlier. Yeah, yeah, Megan,
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Talking about some macaroni and cheese. Capital Market, it's place
to be. Kevin up Saturday making cut up is say
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how you doing make it? Welcome to the show, Thank you.
Speaker 14 (30:54):
Thank you for having me. We're very excited. Hopefully the
weather will work out.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Now. You're the executive director of the Lawrence Jones, the
Third Childhood Language Center. This is who we're benefiting over there.
Let's start from the top and talk about mac and cheese.
It's one of those things that everybody likes.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
Yeah, So we have twenty seven cooks coming out on Saturday,
November first at the Capital Market from eleven to two pm.
And just to put it in perspective, each cook prepares
twelve pounds of dry pasta, so times that by twenty seven.
Which I'm not a mathematician, that's a lot of macatis.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
It's a lot of mac and cheese. That's the official
scientifical term. It's a lot. It's just a lot.
Speaker 14 (31:31):
It equals a lot. So we're super excited. It's our
eleventh annual mac and Cheese cookof and right now it's
our biggest with the biggest amount of cooks, and we
are set to raise forty five thousand dollars. That was
our goal and we're hoping we'll even go a little
bit over that. So that puts us as helping about
eighteen kids for an entire year. That's providing them free
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speech therapy for an entire year.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
And that's what I want to talk about because again,
you're the executive director of the laws with the Third
Childhood Language Center, and this is why we're they're raising money.
Talk about the work of the center.
Speaker 14 (32:05):
Sure, So, we are a free speech therapy clinic here
in Charleston. We're located at thirteen thirteen Courrier Street, and
we provide free speech therapy for about one hundred and
ten kids each week. We employee two full time one
part time therapist, and we do not take a dime
from any family. It doesn't matter your income requirements or
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your income that comes in. And we do not build
insurance because that a lot of times does just the
insurance does not pay for speech therapy. So it's free
no matter what. There's no gimmicks, there's no nothing. We're
just here to help the kids.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
And talk about and I know every every kid is different,
but talk about some of the things that you do
as part of the therapy. Ian's what's the current trends.
Speaker 14 (32:48):
The current trends. You know, the autism is a big
factor with speech therapy. We have Down syndrome, we have
kids that have apraxia, there's kids that use devices, and
then we have other are children who are just delayed,
they just need help with there are sounds or their
thh sounds just very just articulation of the of the sounds.
(33:09):
So it's it's a really mixed bag. But I would
say the majority of our our kids, kiddos are our
clients are autistic.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Okay, And again you offer these services free of charge.
Speaker 14 (33:19):
No matter what, no matter what. And we see kids
in sixteen counties of West in West Virginia. You know,
if you want to travel to us, you are welcome
to travel to us. We do a lot of telehealth too.
If you're we have kids coming from like Greenbrier County
and it's easier for the parents to sign their kids
on and do it via zoom. So we try to
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work with everyone. We want to help as many kids
as we can.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
That's what the whole idea is. Again, we're talking to
making cutlp is the executive director at Laurence Stones, the
third Childhood Language Center, about the mac and Cheese cook off.
How does the ticketing work? If if I'm not entering,
I just want to come and eat some macaroni and
cheese on Saturday or at Capital Market, Explain how the
ticketing works.
Speaker 14 (33:58):
Sure, So for adults it's twenty dollars all you can
eat and you think only twenty seven samples? I promise
you and Dave, I know you can test to this.
That's a lot of macarini and hit it is.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
And what are the numbers compared to last year?
Speaker 14 (34:12):
Reminding me of well, last year we had twenty four.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Okay, can you still sign up or is it yes?
Speaker 14 (34:17):
Yeah, if you still want to sign up, we would
love to have you.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
So you're primary to looking for individuals, you're looking for restaurants. Yeah,
we have research groups, whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 14 (34:26):
We have restaurants, individuals, church groups, Charleston Dirty Birds go
title is doing it, Rainbow Pride, West Virginia's doing it.
Edward Summit. I mean, there is just a mixed bag
of people. Twenty dollars for adults, ten dollars for kids
that's fourteen and under, and then we have a family
four pack which is fifty dollars. So really you can
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feed your whole family of four for fifty dollars. You
can't do that much anymore. And it's all you can eat.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
And it's all you can eat. And again, it's just
a great time over there. I know, I was over
there last year and just packed over there for and
you know, again, I grew up from a I come
from a family that does a lot of cooking and
married someone who does a lot of cooking. I do
a lot of eating. That's that's generally speaking, the way
it works. But mac and cheese to me growing up,
and my mother was an excellent cook, don't get me wrong,
(35:15):
but mac and cheese to me came from a box.
It was craft. It was a classic Kraft macaroni cheese,
and I still love it today. But there are so
many different types of macaroni cheese and so many different
give us over the years, give us a couple of
highlights of the more exotic types of macaroni and cheese.
Speaker 14 (35:31):
There is one guy and he has done it. I
have been doing the mac and Cheese cookoff for eight years,
so this is my eighth. This is the eleventh annual,
so I've done the majority of the mac and cheese cookoffs.
Steven Fernandez has done all eight and he comes up
with the craziest concoctions and last year he won. And Steven,
if you're listening, forgive me because I can't remember your recipe.
(35:52):
But this year is black garlic and miso mac and cheese.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
I'm in you had me sound delicious? You had me
at garlic. I'll tell you right there. I know, I know.
But there are traditional mac and cheeses. Yeah, I mean
we have the majority of it.
Speaker 14 (36:07):
Okay, Yeah, we have Chick fil A that is doing
their traditional Bogies does traditional They're in it. I'm trying
to think. I think Charleston Tennis Club's doing it. And
there's this more traditional I think it's seven cheese but
it's cheesy, but it's more traditional. And then we have
some that put meats on it. I think the Golden
Graders is doing just a traditional mac and cheese.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
The Golden Graders. That's got to be one of the best,
one of the best names.
Speaker 14 (36:32):
Yes, Golden Girls theme.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Golden Girls theme, and Golden Golden Graders. Yes, I love it.
I love it. Now do you separate the different categories
as far as like, so you don't have individuals competing
against restaurants or how does that work?
Speaker 14 (36:45):
No, So our categories are judge's choice, So we have
our judges that go around and taste each one and
pick their top three. We have people's choice, so everyone
who comes gets a token and they can drop their
token into their favorite. So that's how we do the
people's choice, and then we have kids choice. Over the years,
has just gotten too hard to separate all the category,
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so it's judges, people's and kids' choices.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Okay, and do you have first, second, third or do you.
Speaker 14 (37:10):
Have a first, second third? And our first place gets
of course bragging rights is what we say. But then
we have a cool trophy that looks like a bowl
of mac and jo.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Nice and you can display that in your home or
in your business or restaurant you go to.
Speaker 14 (37:22):
Some of these businesses, Bogie's has one out right now.
He won last year and so that's out. But if
you look around, you'll if you go to the right restaurant,
you'll find those trophies.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
And again it's all happening this Saturday. Now, where do
people need to get tickets ahead of time? What's the
best for you for you guys?
Speaker 14 (37:39):
Either or you can get tickets on event bright and
we have a Facebook event page. Well, you can go
to the Childhood Language Center, Lawrence Jones Childhood Language Center,
and we have an event page on there and you
can just click there to get your tickets. That's on
event right. Or you can show up and buy tickets.
And again it's twenty dollars for adult, ten dollars a
child and fifty dollars kid pack.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
And again the from what I understand, we're going to
have some you know, heavy rains like maybe Wednesday and Thursday,
but it's supposed to clear out by a Saturday. So
it's going to be and you want a little chilling,
so you.
Speaker 14 (38:09):
Want to warm up with mac and cheese.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
It's fall, all right, and uh and I will mention
this because the following week is the Sausage and Gravy
cook Off at Capitol Market and I'm going to be
there for that.
Speaker 14 (38:20):
Too, judging that too.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
I am judging that too. Yeah, all right, and so
the Mac and Cheese cook off, So I'm judging this year.
You're telling me I'm judging.
Speaker 14 (38:28):
Yes, you are judging.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Okay, it's Tony the Taylor going to be there too.
Speaker 14 (38:31):
I think he's the one that signed you up.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Oh good.
Speaker 14 (38:33):
And you know what, I do need to give a
shout out to Tony the Taylor. He is just so
he is a big supporter of us, and he's a sponsor,
and you know he always goes above and beyond to
make sure this event is also successful. So shout out
to Tony.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Absolutely, absolutely, And I will say, because you know, we
get asked to judge these things from time to time.
You know I'll be there, and I think a lot
of folks from the radio station are going to be there.
When you judge these things, we don't know who we're judging.
That's generally speaking, the way it works. And so don't
want people to think that we as judges show favoritism
towards anybody. Generally speaking, the way any of these competitions go,
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you get a number and that's the way. And so
we're judging number two. We said that number three is
the best, and we don't know a lot of times
who won until the end, right until until we hear
it announced, and then we had to say, okay, number
three was the winner. Okay, who's number three? Because there
we don't know.
Speaker 14 (39:24):
There's usually a post judges meeting where you guys are like,
really you liked that one, oh that one won. So
it's just really fun.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
It's fun. It's fun, and you can still sign up
if you want to be a participant.
Speaker 14 (39:34):
Yes, yeah, we will never turn anyone away.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Okay, even what if you showed up that morning.
Speaker 14 (39:39):
We'll at a table.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
No, don't care. What time does it start, It.
Speaker 14 (39:42):
Starts at eleven o'clock. Get there early. We have overflow
parking at the Charleston Area Alliance. I know people have
said there's just not enough parking, so we'll have overflow parking.
We're trying to think of everything to make this the
best of it yet, So come on out, support a
great cause and it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
All right, Megan, appreciate you being here. Looking forward to
seeing you Saturday morning. Thanks alling us, thank you, all right.
It is thirteen minutes away from ten. We are going
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Good morning, sir, welcome to the show.
Speaker 16 (44:15):
Good morning, thanks for having me on. You know mac
and Cheese guy, I mean, who doesn't leave me? I
don't trust you, but he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
Your godless communist if you don't like macaroni chief.
Speaker 8 (44:25):
All right.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Meeting schedule for three point thirty today at the City's
Service Center, nine to fifteen Courrier Street in Charleston, from
the Charleston Land Reuse Agency. It's a roundtable designed to
share some updates and the sprucing up and doing something
about the vacant, abandoned, and elaborated properties around the city.
Get into it.
Speaker 16 (44:42):
Talk about this, yeah, yeah, so this is a This
is for helping developers how to best invest in our community.
And so you know, the Lander re Eace agencies on board,
I serve on and it's something I'm really proud of.
So we have you know, over the past seven years
average about one hundred demolitions a year UH in our city,
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which was which was much needed and improve safety, makes
our neighborhoods really feel better, protects people's investments in our communities.
But you know, we can't demolish our way to success.
You know, we have to rebuild. We have to and
we've already started to. So in Charleston on average, we
were we were in the single digits of new constructions
every year, not like in Putnam County, you know, for
(45:26):
the past, you.
Speaker 10 (45:27):
Know, a long time.
Speaker 16 (45:28):
And but we did a new construction program that launched
last April. Applications were in last April, and in the
in the last eighteen months, there have been thirty five
new constructions in the in the in the city.
Speaker 10 (45:41):
Twenty four of them are part of the program.
Speaker 16 (45:43):
So that means that we've also been kind of just
inspiring and helped to grow grow that three point eight
million dollars of private investment was leveraged through this UH
through this program. So we're now you know that that
first kind of round is over, and we are you know,
seek input from folks who do development, who who work
on new buildings, who rehab old buildings. How do we
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what's the best way forward on this, what's needed, and
that this isn't This is probably one of the top
issues I hear from from constituents on is you know,
there's that one house in their neighborhood that's a problem
or things happen there, and so we we want to
make sure we're we have been, you know, addressing that
issue and want to.
Speaker 10 (46:23):
Now shift to the rebuilding phase.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
And again, no matter where you are, it's an issue.
And I think sometimes there's a misconception, well this is
on X Street in Charleston. This send the city and
to tear it down it. It doesn't work that way
by a long shot.
Speaker 16 (46:40):
Yeah, I mean, because you know, if you think about it,
it is kind of a final solution for that house,
you know, And and so you know, you can just
a long process on demolished and house that's right, that's right.
You have to go through the process and make sure
there's you know, that people get noticed and all that,
and you know the problem is that you know a
lot of times there's uh, it's complicated because there's you know,
somebody passes away and who who owns that after that?
Speaker 4 (47:01):
And you know anytimes, I mean somebody will find out
living in Florida that they suddenly own a house in
Charleston that they had no idea about. Yeah, and they
have no interest in or exactly, and so you know,
they're not helping our community. And so we you know
want and if so, what we've been doing, we've actually
been able to leverage and bought. We've already secured right
now one hundred and seventy lots. You know, through that
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kind of tax sell process. People are not paying taxes,
we get a hold of them, and there's one hundred
more in the pipeline, and so those are going towards
towards redevelopment, towards people who live next door who want
to have a little bit of a bigger lot. That's
our side loot program. And also expanding some of the
parkland we have. We've been able to expand Cato Park
and other parks just to have a little bit more.
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And then also there's suck some properties that really the
city needs to have control off. So this meeting is
going to be held at the City Service Center, which
is nine to fifteen cor Yer Street. Starts a three
thirty this Samterdoon and should wrap up around five. Who
are you anticipating coming to this meeting? Who would you
like to see there?
Speaker 16 (47:57):
We would love to We had one of these before,
I think it was maybe two years ago, and.
Speaker 10 (48:03):
That you know.
Speaker 16 (48:04):
So it's a developer So people who have construction do construction,
people who are subcontractors, people who are interested in redevelopment
just in general, and also anybody who's interested in these
issues for their neighborhoods should come by. But we're really
focusing this on the people who can actually do the
redevelopment to help kind of figure out what is what
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they need, how can we facilitate them rebuilding in our communities.
We're being proactive about this, not just waiting to let
things happen.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
And you've got some partners that are going to be there.
I understand the folks from the visions of economic development
are going to be there.
Speaker 10 (48:39):
In some others, that's right.
Speaker 16 (48:41):
Yes, there's a tax incentive program through called build West
Virginia and that there'll be some discussion about about that
and explaining how that works to make sure everybody, you know,
who's in this area we're doing this kind of work
and is aware of that as well.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
I mean, it's an exciting time here in Charleston. I mean,
it really is. And you know, and I understand that
the giant buildings that you see going up on Virginia
Street aren't indicative of the entire city. But I've always
said that when you come into a city and you
pull in and you drive down any of the streets
and you see construction of some type, that's a good
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advertisement for your city.
Speaker 10 (49:16):
Absolutely.
Speaker 16 (49:17):
Yeah, it's it is exciting to see those two new
big buildings going there, and I hope there will be
some more.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
And again, but we want to take this not just
Virginia Street.
Speaker 16 (49:25):
We want it all over Charles, That's right, and we
want and we want our neighborhoods to feel to have
a better feel too than we want to get more,
you know, frankly on the tax rolls, more residential housing
in the area.
Speaker 10 (49:37):
We need it. We need more.
Speaker 16 (49:38):
Housing that we know that that's coming, that there's more
and more housing pressures, and so this is one way
we're addressing that advantage.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
Valley you know, just came out with that survey, so
I guess probably like six months or so ago, and
what it found is that this area Charleston onto Saint
Albans Tates Valley, we are in a debt. We got
a housing shortage going on, and we despinitately need housing.
Speaker 16 (49:58):
Talking about that, yeah, and I don't have those statistics
in front of you, but I know, I know that
a lot of that is being driven by the new
developments in Mason County. But we get that too because
it's not that far away. People can commute there, and
there's going to be ancillary services, and so you know,
we really need to have There's there's housing shortages in
every level of housing, so high end housing there's then
we need more of that. We need middle income housing,
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especially especially downtown, and we also need you know, that
kind of working class housing as well. And so we've seen,
like I said, in the past year and a half,
thirty five new buildings go homes be built in the
city of Charleston, which isn't is unprecedented in recent times.
And so you know, we've lost a lot of population
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over the you know, over our lifetimes and so we
you know, now we need to be able to facilitate
more people moving back.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
We had a question here, and I don't know whether
you can answer this or not, but I'm gonna go
ahead and throw it out there.
Speaker 10 (50:52):
I'm just gonna answer, even if I can't make it
sound good.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
You're an attorney by trade, right, that's right?
Speaker 8 (50:57):
Right?
Speaker 4 (50:58):
What's happening with the building to get ask companies leaving
in Kana City? Says the text re you have any idea?
Speaker 10 (51:03):
I don't know. Actually, yeah, I wish, I wish I did.
Speaker 16 (51:06):
I think they have a tenant, is what I've heard,
but I don't know when that's going to happen.
Speaker 10 (51:10):
And that's sort of thing. But I do think I
have heard that there was a tenant.
Speaker 4 (51:13):
All right. Another text, unrelated to what you're saying, Halloween's
on the thirty first trick or treating happens on Halloween.
I'm happy Kenon County rectified their mistake, like Mayor Goodman
told me a long time ago, counselman, and she's absolutely right.
The two things that you can talk about abandoned houses,
you can talk about potholes, you can talk about snow removal.
The things that get people more fired up are trick
or treating and Christmas parades. That's what everybody gets all
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jacked about.
Speaker 10 (51:35):
Count and get ready for it. Leaf collection. That's what's
coming on.
Speaker 15 (51:38):
All right.
Speaker 4 (51:39):
That meeting is going to be three thirty till five
City Service Enter nine to fifteen Cory Street at Charleston
Council Nim but Pepper, appreciate you being here man, Thanks
for having me. Good luck all right, mister Meadows. What
you got going on on your little song and dance today?
Speaker 17 (51:51):
Ten oh six. Ryan Schmells from Washington. Latest on the shutdown?
Speaker 4 (51:54):
You know, Dave.
Speaker 17 (51:55):
Senator Shelley Moore Capital last night publicly telling Politico she
would vote for a carve out that keeps SNAP funded.
Is this the first crack in the damn for Republicans?
Are they willing to give in? We'll talk to Brian
and get the latest. Tom Sussman of WMOV radio, former
PEIH chair on healthcare. Eleven oh six.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Gordon Gee, you remember that guy used to be president?
Remember him at WVU. He'll stop by. He's got a
new op ed out on education.
Speaker 17 (52:21):
Bill Bissett, President of the West Virginia Manufacturer's Association coming.
Speaker 4 (52:25):
Up at eleven thirty three. All right, and we'll see
how many people you can make mad today.
Speaker 17 (52:29):
Well, you know I do like to talk about the
make Electricity more Expensive act.
Speaker 4 (52:33):
All right, Well you and Emma Pepper canna have a
nice conversation here. All Right, I gotta go. I'll be
back later today with Metro News Midday with thirteen News
Into Night Live anchor Manda bearert MM powered by Selango
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How about some macaroni and cheese. Everybody likes mac and cheese.
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Annual mac and Cheese cookoff happening this Saturday at Capitol Market.
We'll talk to making a cut lip about that, plus
your calls and text before we get to our first
guest this morning. Though this just in within the last
fifteen to twenty minutes. Trick or Treating in Kanawa County
was originally set for this Thursday night. It's being moved
now to Friday night because of expected rain in the area.
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Because it's going to rain, we're moving trick or treating
from Halloween nights, I'm sorry, from Thursday night to Friday night.
So more of that coming up a little bit later on.
There's a statement expected to come out from the Canawa
County Commission about that a little bit later on. Of course,
that will impact trick or treating within the city limits too,
So just in trick or treating in Kanawa County and
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the city of Charleston and all the other cities that
was scheduled for Thursday night has now been moved to
Friday night because of expected rain. More than that coming
up a little bit later on. Also, we've been talking
about trick or beats going on tonight over at Gomart Ballpark.
All tickets are gone, So if you didn't get your tickets,
you are out of luck because they are all gone.
Eye along with my coworkers. At about thirty five hundred
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kids will be there Tonight's go Mart Ballpark, but all
the tickets for that are gone. So got you caught
up on the news, Bigley Biggly Wiggly Hotline three zero
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Buddy Rich, the realtor for mex Realty. Hey doing my friend?
Hey good? Are you I am doing? Five? Did you
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make it to the end of the World Series last night?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
No, definitely not. Two thirty this morning is when it ended.
Dodgers coming out on top with a Freddie Freeman walk
off at exactly two twenty seven a m. This morning,
the eighteenth, anning. The Dodgers lead that series two games
to one. I did not make it. I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I guess there would be a handful of people though
still that are diehard fans that would stay up for
that well.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
As Chris Lawrence said this morning, I was driving in
on the morning news. He said one of the handful
of times he can remember going to bed listening to
the game on the radio and then waking up and
the game was still on when he came into work
this morning while eighteen and so let's know with you.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
My friend, oh, you know, just trying to just moving
and shake him. Have a couple of new listings out
there they'd like to talk about a little bit today.
And also, if you don't mind, like to just kind
of mention that the Ronald McDonald House. I had an
opportunity to volunteer there this last week with our call
that out were realtor colleagues, and they just do such
good work over there, and they're housing families when their
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children are sicking in the hospital, and some of those
families don't have any other options, and they treat them
so well. It took us on a tour of the facility.
Well we actually the realtors and I from the board, uh,
cooked them some chicken soup and had some bagettes and
that kind of thing, which is so nice to do that.
But I just encourage everybody to consider donating to the
(05:12):
Ronald McDonald House, especially it's coming holiday season. They need
the donations. Their pantries are a little bit thin, so
it's just such a good cost to consider they do.
They just do such good work there.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
It is.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It is and something you know, people and of course
monetary donations are always always appreciated. But one of the things, uh,
that that you can also do for the Ronald McDonald
housees things, but that is donate.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Some toys, you know, for for that have to be
new so to find this out, they have to be new,
so they get careful about the germs and those kind
of things.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
As they should.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So, uh, the other thing, they are still collecting the
you know, the the lids or the little pop tops
from the soda cans that pull off there those little
I don't know what you call those aluminum pull things
that used to pull pull tabs or whatever those are.
They're still collecting those. And they of course said, you
know power big numbers, they collect a lot of those.
And they took a huge donation and I think they
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had like eighteen hundred bucks worth of it when they
got it donated. So it's easy to drop off if
you're not saving those, it's an easy way to contribute
to their costs.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
And so lots of things you can do.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
If you're a business, you could do you can host
a toy drive, those kind of things to help you sports.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Ronald McDonald house. It's good charity.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
It is.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Indeed, again we're talking to Rich the realtor. All right,
you've got a couple of listenings you want to do. Yeah,
so I have a new one in Windfield. It's in
Mariner's Landing. It's it's one thirty four Waterside Circle. It's
actually in my neighborhood. And strike one, strike one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So although we give out the good candy, so okay, hallo,
there is that. Yeah so the uh so this house
is four bedroom and two and a half bath. It's
beautiful brick home. It's a Leslie built home. Like though
those houses are around there. It is a flat level
lot subdivision is just it's primo for all the school
systems there, and you know it's it's an ideal place
(06:59):
in my pan to live. Of course I love it there.
But this house is listed A five nineteen nine. It
is also including a home warranty that comes with that.
So loving that, loving that listening. That just went on
the market yesterday. It's one thirty four nine. And then
there's another one by colleague, Oh sorry, one thirty four
Waterside Circuit.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Sorry. Yeah, and it's five nineteen nine. Yeah, okay. And
then my.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Colleague at Meek Trioty Group Kingsley Moody has one also
in Winfield.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You could almost throw a rock at it. Cross the
don't blackwater, don't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But it's it's one zero four or five four Winfield Road,
So it is on Winfield Road. But it is a
river lot, and so it's got a beautiful back porch
that's covered and just and enjoy the view there from
the Kall River.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
It is four seventy nine nine.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
It's three bedroom, two bath, could be four bedrooms as
a finished basement, has some space downstairs that is finished,
no window or anything in there, so probably want a
praise as a four bedroom, but you certainly have the
option to do that.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
We're where's the best place for people to go to
look and we'll hit this before we let you go.
But if they want to go see the pictures.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, So for me, I text your agent directly, you
have them set it straight up. And if you don't
have an agent, I'm happy to help you and just
text me directly and we'll give them my contact info
certainly at the end of the segment. But what the
realtors will do is set you up on search within
our multiple listing service. The secondary sites buy those pictures
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and all of that information from our email less So
if you're set up on the email less, you don't
have to do all of that legwork yourself, so you
don't have to go to those sites that rhyme with
Willow and.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So that'll just directly email you all the listings that
match your criteria, or also email you anything new that
gets listed, so you'll wake up to an email or
you'll get three or four emails throughout the day. If
there's a list of day, it just emails it directly
to you and you don't have to do the legworks.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So how about commercial properties anything you want to a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And we got a couple of investment things that we're
doing currently and working on a ten to thirty one
exchange through through Meeks and and looking at an apartment
complex to exchange that with. So there's some commercial activity
going and another one. I just need one more domino
to fall that's in the valley.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
It's kind of a big one.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So we're hoping that we can get that other domino
to fall shortly.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
So talking to Rich the realtor client of Meek's Realty,
how is the market overall?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It's a little slower. I mean, that's the truth of it.
The buyers have backed off a little. I think that
This is my opinion. Of course, all of this is
just my opinion. Sure, but the you know, the the
help look of the economy and coming into the holiday
season traditionally it goes down a little bit where people
are going to spend a little cash on Christmas and
holidays and that kind of thing. But the uncertainty of
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what's going to happen in twenty twenty six, and then
it's tough to look at a thirty year mortgage and
not know exactly where you're going to be. If you
have a job issue going on, there's layoffs or whatever
that kind of stuff is, it does create some uncertainty
and then a slow down in the market. The market
hasn't really slowed down, but the days on market for
listings have increased some.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
And we do want to remind people that even though
that you know your office is based in tays Valley,
you're all over, you're not just for sure, and I'm
not just tays Valley and Off Valley hunting.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Charleston and on the outskirts of both of those inside
the state of West Virginia.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, for sure. One question I've asked you in the past,
but in case people didn't didn't hear when you've been
on before, is I got a house. Let's say I
have a house and it's it just needs a few
repairs here or there. Now, every situation is different. I
completely get there, and I'd like to give umbrella advice,
but just a few little things here and there. Do
you find that most buyers like to fix it up
and then sell it or sell it as is?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It's way better to fix it up and then sell it.
So I did a visit last night.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Kind of how we start is the visit into the house,
Let's look at what the conditions are and then start
making recommendations on touch up paint or you know there
was in this case that's last night, it's going to
be in South Charleston, that they had some damn around
their flashing of their chimney, their roof was replaced, that
that damage on the ceiling.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Needs to be repaired.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Excuse me, And then those are you know what happens
when buyers will walk into the house is they're looking
at deterrence and every time they see another deterrent, it
just piles on and piles on, and by the end
of their uh, their viewing, then if they've got enough deterrence,
that'll they'll just walk away, you know. So I would
always encourage people to take care of those if you can,
If it's reasonable, you should take care of it. You're
gonna get your money back on most of it.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
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on your mind? Now, I'll just say that.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You know, if you're all realtors aren't the same. And
you know, one of the things that I like about
my job and that I take satisfaction is to be
the source of all your referrals. So if I'm on,
if I'm representing you as a buyer and we get
into contract and we get that closed, it's so rewarding
to do that. But then you've really become friends with
(12:09):
your clients at that point and you become their source
of referrals. Are going to need a plumber down the road,
or an electrician or a gardener or whatever that is.
I'm just a source of all that stuff. I mean,
if you need it, rich the realtor has it. So
if you're thinking about that, I wonder who I could
use for whatever project that is, I'm likely to know
two or three people who can do that for you.
(12:29):
And I find that rewarding also keeps me connected to
the clients. You know, and builds that relationship with them.
It's one of the things I really enjoy.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Well, it's the best way to reach you. My direct
number if I could stop choking.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
My direct number is three oh four nine three two
seven four eight eight three oh four nine three two
seven four eight eight. You can Rich me at our
cliin with a k at meeks Realtygroup dot com. It's
a good email for me, all right, Rich as always
appreciated the being Are the pens started out pretty good,
didn't they?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
They one again last night? So seven or yeah I
was last night.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So Sid got his seventeen oh one assists so he's
starting off good.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Can't believe he's thirty eight years old. Yeah, all right,
Rich surrealtor client, appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot,
Thanks for having me hang out with me. One seac
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four nine three five five zero zero eights. I'm gonna
talk about macaroni and cheese coming up in the next segment.
The mac and Cheese cook off happened to this Saturday,
a Capital market also Charleston City Council wan Emmitt Pepper.
I'll joined us a little bit later on as well.
And again the news that we've brought you at the
top of the hour. Due to expected rain, the trick
or treating in Kanawa County has been moved from Thursday
(16:33):
to Friday nights, so it'll be on the traditional Halloween night.
Just so you know, it will not be on Thursday
night as originally planned. That announcement coming out really within
the last thirty minutes or so, so trick or treating
will not be on Thursday night in Kanawha County. It
will now be on Friday nights. Want to welcome in now,
(16:56):
good friend, Delegate to Tristan Levin Hewy, You doing, man?
Speaker 12 (16:58):
Great?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
How are you? You had a few kids, don't you?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
I do.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
I'm going to mis trick retreating now I'm flying out
to Israel Friday night.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
So I'm really sad about this.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Israel.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
Yeah, for ten days.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
What are you doing in Israel? I mean you don't mind?
Speaker 12 (17:08):
I just yeah, looking around, well, going with a group
of other elected officials and yeah, just going to you know,
try and try and better understand where things stand right now.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Okay, it'll be really interesting. So there was a meeting
held last night and had to do with some economic
developments in the Bell area.
Speaker 12 (17:27):
Is that right to talk about that? At the Bell
town Hall? So this first came up. Some people might
be aware that about a week and a half ago,
Apple Latch and Outlaw Trails had their groundbreaking and they
are at that site across from Riverside and the Walmart
down there in past Bell and it was a great event.
But that is an area that is really going to
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see some growth because of this Apple Latch out Lot
Trails is anchoring it. A lot of a lot of
other small businesses have kind of been on and off
around there, but one of the things we wanted to
do was find a way to help some of them
coordinate more so that with each stage they can know
what growth to expect, how other businesses can capitalize on that,
and how those thinking about starting businesses can can be
a part of things. And so we had a meeting
(18:11):
last night at the Bell Town Hall and it was
really great. We had folks from Workforce West Virginia, the
Regional Inner Governmental Council, the Upper Kannaw Valley Economic Development Corporation,
which runs a Cana Upper Canav Valley Chamber Commerce and
Cannav Valley Tourism, as well as other small business owners
people think about starting businesses, and so it was a
really good opportunity for people to discuss the developments there
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and try and figure out how we can make.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
The most of those.
Speaker 12 (18:35):
Some great takeaways and I think some real opportunities that
came out of it as people shared what their needs
were and then what they could offer to each other.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
And you know, we've had on numerous times on the
Local show and also on the Metro News Midday. We've
had Eric and the folks with the Trail system on
the show Man that that is going to be something.
Speaker 12 (18:52):
It'll be great and like I say, it's really going
to anchor other other great development. So you've got app
Latch and Outlass side by Sides that has started up
just to be a to still provide services there. And
you've got other things, you know, restaurants. Danny Bowles who
runs Bulls Boys Barbecue is going to start a new
bar and grill up there in Campbell's Creek just because
of the growth we'll see from this, and it's it's
(19:12):
really exciting events that the Tompkins is a great venue
there at that historic Tompkins House in Cedar Grove. And
again all these all these businesses are able to expand
because of the growth that is going to come from
this and that they are already seeing. So that's exciting. Again,
we want to capitalize on it. And not too many
people are aware of the Upper canalv Valley Chamber of Commerce.
It only got restarted the last couple of years, so
(19:32):
right now they've been kind of primarily Montgomery Smithers, but
they they are, you know, their goal, their mission is
to serve the entire Upper Canal Valley, and so a
lot of these other businesses that I talk to, we
want to get them involved that again they can they
can know what's coming down the pike and know how
they can best use it to help them succeed.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
What's one of the biggest misconceptions that you hear about
the Upper Canal Valley.
Speaker 12 (19:54):
It's a really good question. I think it probably is
just that there's there's kind of a there, there's an
irony that on the one hand, there are these really
exciting things that are happening. On the other hand, most
people that you talk to feel like nobody cares about us.
Most people that live up there say we've been totally forgotten.
You say, well, it's actually quite a bit going on,
but a lot of people don't hear the updates, and
so I think recognizing that there is some real need
(20:17):
in the area. But there are these exciting developments and
people should, people should get involved. A lot of people
feel like things are never going to change, and I
understand that, and so being able to see, you know,
tangible progress and things open up and stay open rather
than just a cycle of opening and closing and someone
else comes to that space. I think that's important for
people to see real progress because a lot of it depends
(20:38):
on people. People being hopeful, the willingness to start doing business,
depends on the belief that you can make a work.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I mean, look, if the locals don't buy into it,
you got nothing. And as somebody who was around in
southern West Virginia when the ha Fil McCoy trail system
really got going about twenty hard to believe it's been
twenty twenty odd years, but had there not been the
buy in down there from the people in the Gilbert area,
the Mingo County, Logan area, Logan County, it would have
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never happened. You got to have the local buy in.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
From people, yes, and again to do that, we need
people to be informed. So we want to keep talking
about this at every opportunity, every way we can to
say good things are happening number one, Number two, Come
get involved, be a part of them.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
What is it that you I mean, obviously you're going
to see a lot of growth there over the next
couple of years. That's the plant. But on your wish list,
what what would you what are you in need of?
I mean, I know a little bit of everything, but
first one or two things you say, hey, we really
need this. What would it be this or that?
Speaker 12 (21:36):
I think there are a lot of there are a
lot of resources that are available, but there's still some
specific grants. For instance, Eric and Chris, Eric Lark, Chris Ingram,
they are seeking after particular grants to make sure they
can get sewer and water up there at the top
of that site. That is a cost prohibitive development, and
sure they need, you know, grants from things like the
Avalachian Regional Commission. That's a key thing is grants in
(21:58):
that area, focused focus there particularly. I think the second
thing is again just people willing to invest invest in
new businesses to support what's going on there. Again, you
have these these these new businesses there, and and you
have aside from the tourism side or the recreation side,
you've got things like clean Seas in bell Their their
(22:21):
developer was there meeting last night. Eminate is a group
that is looking to put in solar facility or solar
panels over where the Mammoth Cole site was, and so
we also need other growth around them. So it's not
it's not a there's not a single silver bullet, but
just there's got to be grants there. There does need
to be some some help to get some of these
(22:41):
things off the ground. But beyond that, just people paying
attention to the area saying this is a place where
I could come. I could build a facility right here
that's going to benefit from being next to clean seas
that's doing the plastic burning, and this this is somewhere
where there would be some positive You know, we together
we can accomplish more than just if we were doing
this alone.
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Technical College. Your career starts here. And again, I think
sometimes we fail, all of us, fail to take a
couple things into account when you talk about things like this,
when you're talking about these trail systems. And again I
got a little background in this from the hat film
McCoy trail is that it's not just about the trail system.
I mean you think about if you if you and
your family go to the beach, you know, there's only
(23:41):
so much time you're going to spend on the beach.
You're going to hit up the restaurants, You're going to
hit up the gift shops and you and this is
what's going to be needed with this trails, This this
whole trail thing up there is you're going to need
all the other stuff to go with it because you
can only spend so much time actually out there doing that.
You're going to come off of it evnch and you're
going to want to go grab dinner, you know, grab
(24:03):
a cup of coffee, grab a beer, you know, hit
up a gift shop things of that nature.
Speaker 12 (24:07):
Yes, Canan Valley Tourism last night highlighted that they are
creating a database just of every attraction, including restaurants and hotels,
but all kinds of other things because again, people are
gonna come here. How blatch you out law trails will
be able to host national tournaments. Tournament is the wrong national.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Competitions alleans competition competitions.
Speaker 12 (24:25):
Yeah, so it will be the largest outdoor trail system
in the country eventually, and so this will be a
prime location for these competitions. And again, people coming for
the first time, maybe they're only time, so you know,
to Charleston, West Virginia, they want to see what there
is to do and so.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
And generally speaking it's with a with a large radius.
They just not just going to be two miles down
the road. I mean they're going to come into downtown Charleston.
They're going to want to you know, head the opposite
direction as well to see what the area has to offer.
Speaker 12 (24:50):
Absolutely, so you know, groups like the Charleston Area Allians
have done a great job. Meant there are a lot
of things focused here in Charleston. But again, that eastern
end of Kennaugh County that they need to fall a suit, right,
We need to get things ready for when these people
come and visit.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
And we talk about the need for lodging and hotels
and things of that nature, and it's huge. It's huge
with a lot of these things that are going on,
and this is going to be I mean, so look,
if you're an entrepreneur and you're looking for a way
to get in on this thing early, they're gonna want cabins. Now.
They stay in hotels, you know, your Hamptons, and I
(25:23):
mean they'll do that, but primarily the people that do
this kind of thing, they like the whole rustic cabin feel.
So look, if I got some extra money and I'm
looking and I'm in that part of the world, I'm
starting to look at some property right now and seeing,
you know, how can I do a cabin you know,
with a big front porch and everything on it.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
I love that And I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 12 (25:40):
And again the Tompkins, you've got a kind of bed
and breakfast right there. One of the people that attended
last night said he's looking Starrings the camper rental business,
because sure he realizes the opportunities there. So I think
there's major opportunities right now. You know, we just want
to make sure people are making the most of them.
Where's the best place?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I mean, you're always welcome on this show, you and
others to talk about this, but is there sure like
a source like a website or social media where you
can learn about all of that? I know there's probably several,
but is there a couple of things?
Speaker 12 (26:05):
It's that was one of the discussion items last night
was that there hasn't really been a single place to go,
and so that's one of the things I'm looking at,
is how to coordinate. You've got stuff from all the
way up at very high level development and water, you know, management,
all the way down to again the Chamber of commerce,
and then how do you inform the public? I am
if people want to email me Tristan tr I S
T A and dot L E A v I T
T at WV House dot gov. I'm putting together a
(26:27):
list and again primarily focused on the fifty third district,
but just from there we're going to come up with
some more public facing way people that want to get involved,
that have a business, the uk V E d C
dot org, I believe, or google it or google it
up Burgnot Valley Economic Development Corporation. They have a lot
of resources on there. Again that's more focused on businesses.
(26:50):
But between those, we're going to try and come up
with more ways to make sure we can get this
out to the public.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Do you have any more public meetings planned on the
schedule now?
Speaker 12 (26:57):
I think I think the next stage is for us
to kind of assess again with all these groups and
all the kind of people that met with them yesterday,
what needs come out of that. So we'll take stock
and we'll see if we have another one, will announce it,
We'll get people involved and let people know what the
next steps are.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
All right, we'll have you back on the show when
you got some news. Force you always welcome here, Republican
Delegate to Tristan Levitt from the fifty third. I appreciate
you being here, man, Exciting stuff going on the Upper
Canal Valley. Appreciate you telling us about it.
Speaker 12 (27:23):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me, And it's
exciting for sure.
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I'm sad I'll miss it and I just met earlier. Yeah, yeah, Megan,
and so it'll be fantastic.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
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That's when it will be. So please make your plans accordingly.
Talking about some macaroni and cheese. Capital Market, it's place
to be. Kevin up Saturday making cut up is say
(30:52):
how you doing make it? Welcome to the show, Thank you.
Speaker 14 (30:54):
Thank you for having me. We're very excited. Hopefully the
weather will work out.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Now. You're the executive director of the Lawrence Jones, the
Third Childhood Language Center. This is who we're benefiting over there.
Let's start from the top and talk about mac and cheese.
It's one of those things that everybody likes.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
Yeah, So we have twenty seven cooks coming out on Saturday,
November first at the Capital Market from eleven to two pm.
And just to put it in perspective, each cook prepares
twelve pounds of dry pasta, so times that by twenty seven.
Which I'm not a mathematician, that's a lot of macatis.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
It's a lot of mac and cheese. That's the official
scientifical term. It's a lot. It's just a lot.
Speaker 14 (31:31):
It equals a lot. So we're super excited. It's our
eleventh annual mac and Cheese cookof and right now it's
our biggest with the biggest amount of cooks, and we
are set to raise forty five thousand dollars. That was
our goal and we're hoping we'll even go a little
bit over that. So that puts us as helping about
eighteen kids for an entire year. That's providing them free
(31:54):
speech therapy for an entire year.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
And that's what I want to talk about because again,
you're the executive director of the laws with the Third
Childhood Language Center, and this is why we're they're raising money.
Talk about the work of the center.
Speaker 14 (32:05):
Sure, So, we are a free speech therapy clinic here
in Charleston. We're located at thirteen thirteen Courrier Street, and
we provide free speech therapy for about one hundred and
ten kids each week. We employee two full time one
part time therapist, and we do not take a dime
from any family. It doesn't matter your income requirements or
(32:26):
your income that comes in. And we do not build
insurance because that a lot of times does just the
insurance does not pay for speech therapy. So it's free
no matter what. There's no gimmicks, there's no nothing. We're
just here to help the kids.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
And talk about and I know every every kid is different,
but talk about some of the things that you do
as part of the therapy. Ian's what's the current trends.
Speaker 14 (32:48):
The current trends. You know, the autism is a big
factor with speech therapy. We have Down syndrome, we have
kids that have apraxia, there's kids that use devices, and
then we have other are children who are just delayed,
they just need help with there are sounds or their
thh sounds just very just articulation of the of the sounds.
(33:09):
So it's it's a really mixed bag. But I would
say the majority of our our kids, kiddos are our
clients are autistic.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Okay, And again you offer these services free of charge.
Speaker 14 (33:19):
No matter what, no matter what. And we see kids
in sixteen counties of West in West Virginia. You know,
if you want to travel to us, you are welcome
to travel to us. We do a lot of telehealth too.
If you're we have kids coming from like Greenbrier County
and it's easier for the parents to sign their kids
on and do it via zoom. So we try to
(33:41):
work with everyone. We want to help as many kids
as we can.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
That's what the whole idea is. Again, we're talking to
making cutlp is the executive director at Laurence Stones, the
third Childhood Language Center, about the mac and Cheese cook off.
How does the ticketing work? If if I'm not entering,
I just want to come and eat some macaroni and
cheese on Saturday or at Capital Market, Explain how the
ticketing works.
Speaker 14 (33:58):
Sure, So for adults it's twenty dollars all you can
eat and you think only twenty seven samples? I promise
you and Dave, I know you can test to this.
That's a lot of macarini and hit it is.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
And what are the numbers compared to last year?
Speaker 14 (34:12):
Reminding me of well, last year we had twenty four.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Okay, can you still sign up or is it yes?
Speaker 14 (34:17):
Yeah, if you still want to sign up, we would
love to have you.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
So you're primary to looking for individuals, you're looking for restaurants. Yeah,
we have research groups, whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 14 (34:26):
We have restaurants, individuals, church groups, Charleston Dirty Birds go
title is doing it, Rainbow Pride, West Virginia's doing it.
Edward Summit. I mean, there is just a mixed bag
of people. Twenty dollars for adults, ten dollars for kids
that's fourteen and under, and then we have a family
four pack which is fifty dollars. So really you can
(34:47):
feed your whole family of four for fifty dollars. You
can't do that much anymore. And it's all you can eat.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
And it's all you can eat. And again, it's just
a great time over there. I know, I was over
there last year and just packed over there for and
you know, again, I grew up from a I come
from a family that does a lot of cooking and
married someone who does a lot of cooking. I do
a lot of eating. That's that's generally speaking, the way
it works. But mac and cheese to me growing up,
and my mother was an excellent cook, don't get me wrong,
(35:15):
but mac and cheese to me came from a box.
It was craft. It was a classic Kraft macaroni cheese,
and I still love it today. But there are so
many different types of macaroni cheese and so many different
give us over the years, give us a couple of
highlights of the more exotic types of macaroni and cheese.
Speaker 14 (35:31):
There is one guy and he has done it. I
have been doing the mac and Cheese cookoff for eight years,
so this is my eighth. This is the eleventh annual,
so I've done the majority of the mac and cheese cookoffs.
Steven Fernandez has done all eight and he comes up
with the craziest concoctions and last year he won. And Steven,
if you're listening, forgive me because I can't remember your recipe.
(35:52):
But this year is black garlic and miso mac and cheese.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
I'm in you had me sound delicious? You had me
at garlic. I'll tell you right there. I know, I know.
But there are traditional mac and cheeses. Yeah, I mean
we have the majority of it.
Speaker 14 (36:07):
Okay, Yeah, we have Chick fil A that is doing
their traditional Bogies does traditional They're in it. I'm trying
to think. I think Charleston Tennis Club's doing it. And
there's this more traditional I think it's seven cheese but
it's cheesy, but it's more traditional. And then we have
some that put meats on it. I think the Golden
Graders is doing just a traditional mac and cheese.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
The Golden Graders. That's got to be one of the best,
one of the best names.
Speaker 14 (36:32):
Yes, Golden Girls theme.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Golden Girls theme, and Golden Golden Graders. Yes, I love it.
I love it. Now do you separate the different categories
as far as like, so you don't have individuals competing
against restaurants or how does that work?
Speaker 14 (36:45):
No, So our categories are judge's choice, So we have
our judges that go around and taste each one and
pick their top three. We have people's choice, so everyone
who comes gets a token and they can drop their
token into their favorite. So that's how we do the
people's choice, and then we have kids choice. Over the years,
has just gotten too hard to separate all the category,
(37:06):
so it's judges, people's and kids' choices.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Okay, and do you have first, second, third or do you.
Speaker 14 (37:10):
Have a first, second third? And our first place gets
of course bragging rights is what we say. But then
we have a cool trophy that looks like a bowl
of mac and jo.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Nice and you can display that in your home or
in your business or restaurant you go to.
Speaker 14 (37:22):
Some of these businesses, Bogie's has one out right now.
He won last year and so that's out. But if
you look around, you'll if you go to the right restaurant,
you'll find those trophies.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
And again it's all happening this Saturday. Now, where do
people need to get tickets ahead of time? What's the
best for you for you guys?
Speaker 14 (37:39):
Either or you can get tickets on event bright and
we have a Facebook event page. Well, you can go
to the Childhood Language Center, Lawrence Jones Childhood Language Center,
and we have an event page on there and you
can just click there to get your tickets. That's on
event right. Or you can show up and buy tickets.
And again it's twenty dollars for adult, ten dollars a
child and fifty dollars kid pack.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
And again the from what I understand, we're going to
have some you know, heavy rains like maybe Wednesday and Thursday,
but it's supposed to clear out by a Saturday. So
it's going to be and you want a little chilling,
so you.
Speaker 14 (38:09):
Want to warm up with mac and cheese.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
It's fall, all right, and uh and I will mention
this because the following week is the Sausage and Gravy
cook Off at Capitol Market and I'm going to be
there for that.
Speaker 14 (38:20):
Too, judging that too.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
I am judging that too. Yeah, all right, and so
the Mac and Cheese cook off, So I'm judging this year.
You're telling me I'm judging.
Speaker 14 (38:28):
Yes, you are judging.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Okay, it's Tony the Taylor going to be there too.
Speaker 14 (38:31):
I think he's the one that signed you up.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Oh good.
Speaker 14 (38:33):
And you know what, I do need to give a
shout out to Tony the Taylor. He is just so
he is a big supporter of us, and he's a sponsor,
and you know he always goes above and beyond to
make sure this event is also successful. So shout out
to Tony.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Absolutely, absolutely, And I will say, because you know, we
get asked to judge these things from time to time.
You know I'll be there, and I think a lot
of folks from the radio station are going to be there.
When you judge these things, we don't know who we're judging.
That's generally speaking, the way it works. And so don't
want people to think that we as judges show favoritism
towards anybody. Generally speaking, the way any of these competitions go,
(39:08):
you get a number and that's the way. And so
we're judging number two. We said that number three is
the best, and we don't know a lot of times
who won until the end, right until until we hear
it announced, and then we had to say, okay, number
three was the winner. Okay, who's number three? Because there
we don't know.
Speaker 14 (39:24):
There's usually a post judges meeting where you guys are like,
really you liked that one, oh that one won. So
it's just really fun.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
It's fun. It's fun, and you can still sign up
if you want to be a participant.
Speaker 14 (39:34):
Yes, yeah, we will never turn anyone away.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Okay, even what if you showed up that morning.
Speaker 14 (39:39):
We'll at a table.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
No, don't care. What time does it start, It.
Speaker 14 (39:42):
Starts at eleven o'clock. Get there early. We have overflow
parking at the Charleston Area Alliance. I know people have
said there's just not enough parking, so we'll have overflow parking.
We're trying to think of everything to make this the
best of it yet, So come on out, support a
great cause and it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
All right, Megan, appreciate you being here. Looking forward to
seeing you Saturday morning. Thanks alling us, thank you, all right.
It is thirteen minutes away from ten. We are going
to take a break when we come back to Charleston
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(43:11):
and that's what I mean. I live in Putnam County
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then that will include all of Kanaw County. The city
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(43:34):
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Bye all right, Charleston City Council and Emmitt Pepper's here.
Good morning, sir, welcome to the show.
Speaker 16 (44:15):
Good morning, thanks for having me on. You know mac
and Cheese guy, I mean, who doesn't leave me? I
don't trust you, but he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
Your godless communist if you don't like macaroni chief.
Speaker 8 (44:25):
All right.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Meeting schedule for three point thirty today at the City's
Service Center, nine to fifteen Courrier Street in Charleston, from
the Charleston Land Reuse Agency. It's a roundtable designed to
share some updates and the sprucing up and doing something
about the vacant, abandoned, and elaborated properties around the city.
Get into it.
Speaker 16 (44:42):
Talk about this, yeah, yeah, so this is a This
is for helping developers how to best invest in our community.
And so you know, the Lander re Eace agencies on board,
I serve on and it's something I'm really proud of.
So we have you know, over the past seven years
average about one hundred demolitions a year UH in our city,
(45:04):
which was which was much needed and improve safety, makes
our neighborhoods really feel better, protects people's investments in our communities.
But you know, we can't demolish our way to success.
You know, we have to rebuild. We have to and
we've already started to. So in Charleston on average, we
were we were in the single digits of new constructions
every year, not like in Putnam County, you know, for
(45:26):
the past, you.
Speaker 10 (45:27):
Know, a long time.
Speaker 16 (45:28):
And but we did a new construction program that launched
last April. Applications were in last April, and in the
in the last eighteen months, there have been thirty five
new constructions in the in the in the city.
Speaker 10 (45:41):
Twenty four of them are part of the program.
Speaker 16 (45:43):
So that means that we've also been kind of just
inspiring and helped to grow grow that three point eight
million dollars of private investment was leveraged through this UH
through this program. So we're now you know that that
first kind of round is over, and we are you know,
seek input from folks who do development, who who work
on new buildings, who rehab old buildings. How do we
(46:06):
what's the best way forward on this, what's needed, and
that this isn't This is probably one of the top
issues I hear from from constituents on is you know,
there's that one house in their neighborhood that's a problem
or things happen there, and so we we want to
make sure we're we have been, you know, addressing that
issue and want to.
Speaker 10 (46:23):
Now shift to the rebuilding phase.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
And again, no matter where you are, it's an issue.
And I think sometimes there's a misconception, well this is
on X Street in Charleston. This send the city and
to tear it down it. It doesn't work that way
by a long shot.
Speaker 16 (46:40):
Yeah, I mean, because you know, if you think about it,
it is kind of a final solution for that house,
you know, And and so you know, you can just
a long process on demolished and house that's right, that's right.
You have to go through the process and make sure
there's you know, that people get noticed and all that,
and you know the problem is that you know a
lot of times there's uh, it's complicated because there's you know,
somebody passes away and who who owns that after that?
Speaker 4 (47:01):
And you know anytimes, I mean somebody will find out
living in Florida that they suddenly own a house in
Charleston that they had no idea about. Yeah, and they
have no interest in or exactly, and so you know,
they're not helping our community. And so we you know
want and if so, what we've been doing, we've actually
been able to leverage and bought. We've already secured right
now one hundred and seventy lots. You know, through that
(47:21):
kind of tax sell process. People are not paying taxes,
we get a hold of them, and there's one hundred
more in the pipeline, and so those are going towards
towards redevelopment, towards people who live next door who want
to have a little bit of a bigger lot. That's
our side loot program. And also expanding some of the
parkland we have. We've been able to expand Cato Park
and other parks just to have a little bit more.
(47:43):
And then also there's suck some properties that really the
city needs to have control off. So this meeting is
going to be held at the City Service Center, which
is nine to fifteen cor Yer Street. Starts a three
thirty this Samterdoon and should wrap up around five. Who
are you anticipating coming to this meeting? Who would you
like to see there?
Speaker 16 (47:57):
We would love to We had one of these before,
I think it was maybe two years ago, and.
Speaker 10 (48:03):
That you know.
Speaker 16 (48:04):
So it's a developer So people who have construction do construction,
people who are subcontractors, people who are interested in redevelopment
just in general, and also anybody who's interested in these
issues for their neighborhoods should come by. But we're really
focusing this on the people who can actually do the
redevelopment to help kind of figure out what is what
(48:27):
they need, how can we facilitate them rebuilding in our communities.
We're being proactive about this, not just waiting to let
things happen.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
And you've got some partners that are going to be there.
I understand the folks from the visions of economic development
are going to be there.
Speaker 10 (48:39):
In some others, that's right.
Speaker 16 (48:41):
Yes, there's a tax incentive program through called build West
Virginia and that there'll be some discussion about about that
and explaining how that works to make sure everybody, you know,
who's in this area we're doing this kind of work
and is aware of that as well.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
I mean, it's an exciting time here in Charleston. I mean,
it really is. And you know, and I understand that
the giant buildings that you see going up on Virginia
Street aren't indicative of the entire city. But I've always
said that when you come into a city and you
pull in and you drive down any of the streets
and you see construction of some type, that's a good
(49:15):
advertisement for your city.
Speaker 10 (49:16):
Absolutely.
Speaker 16 (49:17):
Yeah, it's it is exciting to see those two new
big buildings going there, and I hope there will be
some more.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
And again, but we want to take this not just
Virginia Street.
Speaker 16 (49:25):
We want it all over Charles, That's right, and we
want and we want our neighborhoods to feel to have
a better feel too than we want to get more,
you know, frankly on the tax rolls, more residential housing
in the area.
Speaker 10 (49:37):
We need it. We need more.
Speaker 16 (49:38):
Housing that we know that that's coming, that there's more
and more housing pressures, and so this is one way
we're addressing that advantage.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
Valley you know, just came out with that survey, so
I guess probably like six months or so ago, and
what it found is that this area Charleston onto Saint
Albans Tates Valley, we are in a debt. We got
a housing shortage going on, and we despinitately need housing.
Speaker 16 (49:58):
Talking about that, yeah, and I don't have those statistics
in front of you, but I know, I know that
a lot of that is being driven by the new
developments in Mason County. But we get that too because
it's not that far away. People can commute there, and
there's going to be ancillary services, and so you know,
we really need to have There's there's housing shortages in
every level of housing, so high end housing there's then
we need more of that. We need middle income housing,
(50:20):
especially especially downtown, and we also need you know, that
kind of working class housing as well. And so we've seen,
like I said, in the past year and a half,
thirty five new buildings go homes be built in the
city of Charleston, which isn't is unprecedented in recent times.
And so you know, we've lost a lot of population
(50:41):
over the you know, over our lifetimes and so we
you know, now we need to be able to facilitate
more people moving back.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
We had a question here, and I don't know whether
you can answer this or not, but I'm gonna go
ahead and throw it out there.
Speaker 10 (50:52):
I'm just gonna answer, even if I can't make it
sound good.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
You're an attorney by trade, right, that's right?
Speaker 8 (50:57):
Right?
Speaker 4 (50:58):
What's happening with the building to get ask companies leaving
in Kana City? Says the text re you have any idea?
Speaker 10 (51:03):
I don't know. Actually, yeah, I wish, I wish I did.
Speaker 16 (51:06):
I think they have a tenant, is what I've heard,
but I don't know when that's going to happen.
Speaker 10 (51:10):
And that's sort of thing. But I do think I
have heard that there was a tenant.
Speaker 4 (51:13):
All right. Another text, unrelated to what you're saying, Halloween's
on the thirty first trick or treating happens on Halloween.
I'm happy Kenon County rectified their mistake, like Mayor Goodman
told me a long time ago, counselman, and she's absolutely right.
The two things that you can talk about abandoned houses,
you can talk about potholes, you can talk about snow removal.
The things that get people more fired up are trick
or treating and Christmas parades. That's what everybody gets all
(51:34):
jacked about.
Speaker 10 (51:35):
Count and get ready for it. Leaf collection. That's what's
coming on.
Speaker 15 (51:38):
All right.
Speaker 4 (51:39):
That meeting is going to be three thirty till five
City Service Enter nine to fifteen Cory Street at Charleston
Council Nim but Pepper, appreciate you being here man, Thanks
for having me. Good luck all right, mister Meadows. What
you got going on on your little song and dance today?
Speaker 17 (51:51):
Ten oh six. Ryan Schmells from Washington. Latest on the shutdown?
Speaker 4 (51:54):
You know, Dave.
Speaker 17 (51:55):
Senator Shelley Moore Capital last night publicly telling Politico she
would vote for a carve out that keeps SNAP funded.
Is this the first crack in the damn for Republicans?
Are they willing to give in? We'll talk to Brian
and get the latest. Tom Sussman of WMOV radio, former
PEIH chair on healthcare. Eleven oh six.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Gordon Gee, you remember that guy used to be president?
Remember him at WVU. He'll stop by. He's got a
new op ed out on education.
Speaker 17 (52:21):
Bill Bissett, President of the West Virginia Manufacturer's Association coming.
Speaker 4 (52:25):
Up at eleven thirty three. All right, and we'll see
how many people you can make mad today.
Speaker 17 (52:29):
Well, you know I do like to talk about the
make Electricity more Expensive act.
Speaker 4 (52:33):
All right, Well you and Emma Pepper canna have a
nice conversation here. All Right, I gotta go. I'll be
back later today with Metro News Midday with thirteen News
Into Night Live anchor Manda bearert MM powered by Selango
law It speaking of mister Solango, can On County Commission,
President of Ben Silango, coming up on the show tomorrow.
We'll see you later, So then have fun to love somebody.
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