10/31/25 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Chris Lawrence, Tom Bragg, Rachel Cope, Dr. Casey Sacks, Tom Susman & Zack Maynard

Dave talks with Chris Lawrence, Tom Bragg, Rachel Cope, Dr. Casey Sacks, Tom Susman and New State Senator Zack Maynard.

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is Zach Maynard. He was named to the position to

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replace Mike Stewart, whos joined the Trump administration. Soon to
be Senator Maynard's going to join this later in the show.
News coming out yesterday at the Canaw County Emergency Ambulance
Authority canceling its contract with high Mark Blue Cross Blue Shield.
What does that mean for you? We'll talk to the
spokesperson for the ambulance service, Authorty Tom Susman, doctor Casey
Sachs from Bridge Valleys here and of course our Adopt
Me Please Pet of the Week from the canaw Charleston

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Humane Association. No Angie Gillan Water. This week she is
off on assignment. Rachel Cope with making her debut in
the Angie roll on the show. Plus, your calls and
texts are always welcome. Let's start by talking high school football.
Chris Lawrence joins us in studio. Good morning, sir, and
Happy Halloween. Same and Tom Bragg is an undisclosed location.
Good morning to you too, sir. Hi guys, all right, Chris,

(02:28):
I want to start with you. Happy Halloween. Favorite Halloween candy?
Oh uh, butterfinger? Butterfingers, butterfinger or a pay day?

Speaker 5 (02:37):
All right?

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Do you get a lot of you get a lot
of tricker treaters at Lawrence Mansion. We have in our
little neighborhood.

Speaker 6 (02:43):
We've got like thirty houses and of those thirty houses,
probably half of them have trick or treating age kids. Uh,
they're usually it takes about thirty to forty five minutes
and they're done. And we're not a big enough housing
development to draw those kids from in the out out
on out the area. We're the first housing development when

(03:07):
you start toward town, okay, but generally they pass us
up to go to one of those big places down
the Hurricane and get on those megaplaces like where you live.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
We don't really have a lot where I live now.
The development next to us has a lot, and sometimes
they'll trickle in, but we don't have a whole lot
of it.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
And I purposely, in the last several years, have just decided,
you know what, I'm biting the bullet. I'm going to
be that guy. I'm going to be that house I
give out full sized candy bar.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
I just go to Sam's and get a big case
of them, and I'm just like, here you go, here's
a full sized Hershey bar. Enjoy it like they did
in the nineteen forties.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
There you go. All right, talk about your game tonight.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
We got Nitro and Capital on the air well, and
I don't know yet what time will be on the air.
Supposed to be six thirty and then the kickoff is
supposed to be at seven. However, I was told earlier
this week that there is debate about whether they want
to move it back to seven thirty to accommodate trick
or treating. I don't know if they've done that or not.
I need to check on that of course today, but
either way we will be on after the sports line.

(04:09):
It might be an abbreviated sports line, or it might
be the whole sports line. I don't know at this point,
but the matchup is an intriguing one. We saw Nitro
last week against Winfield struggled a little bit because they
came out of the block first of all, making a
lot of mistakes penalty wise. Then they turned the ball over,
coughed it up several times and Winfield got on them. Now,

(04:29):
once they settled down and cut out those mistakes, they
were able to pull away in the second half. Capital,
as always has the propensity to really wear you out
because they've got blazing speed of the skill positions and
you've really got to control day A. Robinson. He is
the main threat out of that Capital backfield. It'll be
interesting to see if they corral him. Nitro on the
on their hands, got a lot of weapons. You might

(04:51):
it's kind of like whack them hole. You might cover
one hole, but like four more are going to burn you.
So that's a difficult team to defend again, So it'll
be interesting tonight following the show tonight or following the
game tonight, will have Metro News Game Night with Fred
and Dave all.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Right on Westervirginia Outdoors. Tomorrow morning.

Speaker 6 (05:06):
We're going to talk actually it's going to be kind
of like a talk line tomorrow. We're going to talk
about Hunters Helping the Hungry and the way it relates
to what's going on right now with the situation with
the government shutdown and the snap benefits being canceled. Because
obviously it's an important time for the Mountaineer Food Bank.
So we'll have the folks in the Mountaineer Food Bank

(05:27):
on to talk about. I mean, every year they do
the Hunters Helping the Hunging program. It's the largest donation
of red meat to the food bank every year. We
will talk to them this year about how important that is.
Plus a couple of offshoots of that. To defray the
cost of this, they have to get donations to pay
for the processing of the meat, and they've got a

(05:47):
couple of ways they do that. One was last weekend
they had what they call the Governor's One Shot Hunt,
which is a special hunt that is put together and
has been for many I think twenty years now. By
some volunteer organizations and then they have a banquet and
it's kind of a fundraiser that they bring in people
to do that. But Sunday is what they determine to

(06:10):
share the harvest. Sunday where they ask everybody. The Council
of the West Virginia Council of Churches asked everybody in
church in West Virginia on Sunday to give one dollar.
If everybody that was in church on Sunday in West
Virginia gave a dollar, they'd pay for the program like
six times. I mean that that would that That's the
reality of it, And so they try to they try

(06:31):
to get churches to take up special donation to help
pay for it, and those two things seem to have
always helped out a lot.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
So enjoy your broadcast whatever time it starts tonight, exactly
will eventually be on the air. That's the plan. All right.
Tom Bragg is with us right now. Good morning, sir.
How are you doing well, Dave?

Speaker 7 (06:49):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
I'm doing fine? Your favorite Halloween candy? Because I'm asking
everybody now today what's your favorite?

Speaker 7 (06:54):
Oh my gosh, I know, Chris said, Butterfinger. I like
a Butterfinger, but they get stuck in my teeth too much.
I like the I like the recent cups. I like
a good dumb dumb sucker every now and then. But yeah,
probably the recent cups are my number one.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
All right? Do you get a lot of trick or
treaters at your place?

Speaker 7 (07:07):
You know, not at our house. Our neighborhood has a
ton of trick or treaters. But the way our house
is situated in the neighborhood, it's a little bit off
the beaten path. If you come to our house, you
got to walk back up a big hill to get
to where all the good trick or treat houses are.
So we get a couple of stragglers, but only only
the brave who want to walk back up the hill.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
I got you, I got you. I talk about your
game tonight, Tom, And of course your game is Chris's
Games on WCHS. Your game on the Superstar Country ninety
six one KWS featuring feature in Herbert Hoover. What you
got tonight?

Speaker 7 (07:36):
Yeah, Husky's back at home after a long and probably
disappointing trip. If you're a Hoover fan last week to Frankfurt.
Huskies have Parkersburg Big Red's coming to elf you tonight.
I believe, as similar with Chris, I believe kickoff is
at seven o'clock. I know Herbert Hoover hosted a trunk
retreat event at the at the at the school last
night for the people in the community, So I don't
think they're pushing the kickoff back. But you never know

(07:59):
if the trick or treats. It's kind of thrown a
lot of things in flux this week, but I expect
a good game tonight. You know, Parkersburg is a quote
unquote big school playing in the four A classification. Big
Reds have won five games this season. Their ranked number
nine in four A, so a playoff team. But when
you start digging into it, you look at their five wins.
The teams they've beat are combined ten and thirty one

(08:19):
Is two and six, Hurricane two and six, Parkersburg South,
two and six, Riverside one and seven, Cable Midland and
three and six Ripley. They've lost when they've played teams
with a pulse for I guess lack of a better term,
And we'll see what Herbert Hoover has. You know, they're
kind of licking their wounds coming off a loss at
Frankfort last week. The Huskies couldn't really get out of
their own way. They had some sloppy play, some penalties

(08:40):
really affected them. They kind of got beat on. Both
offensive lines, had trouble getting the running game going, which
is such a big part of their offensive attack. And
on the other side of that, Frankfort did. All credit
to Frankfort. That was a really good football team Matt
Murphy and I saw last week. But they run that
single wing almost two perfection, and Herbert Hoover had a
real hard time stopping that. We're doing to be a

(09:00):
little different. It's going to be more of a traditional
look for what you've got to defend versus that single wing.
So it should be an interesting game. I think on paper,
Herbert Hoover would probably be the favorite, all things considered,
but this time of year you never know, so I
expect a good game. Should be a fun one down
and no with you to see me.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
We'll be listening. Hey, Tom, I appreciate you being here, man,
thanks a lot, have a great broadcast. You guys. Be
safe tonight.

Speaker 7 (09:22):
Hey, thanks Dave. Happy Halloween.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
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Cannal Charleston Yumaine Association and here standing in for Angie
Gilla wanted this morning. Making her debut on the show
is Rachel Cope. Good morning, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (09:53):
Hi. How are you?

Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'm doing fine? How are you? You sound enthusiastic?

Speaker 8 (09:57):
Hi, I'm so excited to be able to to be
here and do this. I love talking about our animals
and this is a radio debut for me, so I'm
excited for everybody to hear my voice.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
And as always, our pedal of the week's picture posted
on Dave Allen Radio and Facebook, also the WCCHS Network
Facebook page and at Dave A seventy on X Love
the name Rachel tell Us about ka.

Speaker 8 (10:20):
Uh kil Basa is like a handful of energy. Everybody
at the shelter loves this dog. He is the silliest
little thing in the world. He is kid friendly, loves kids.
He is a clack clown, which essentially at the shelter
means that he is like he's funny at the end
of day, like he just does things that'll make you laugh.
He's very like jumpy. He is great with other dogs.

(10:43):
He does great in our playgroups. He prefers a playful dog,
so if you do have another dog in your household,
he is of course going to what a more like
playful one, not a senior. He is three years old,
I believe, and he's forty eight five pounds. I think
he's a great little guy. And I don't know if

(11:04):
you saw his picture, but he's got those beautiful multi
colored eyes, that one bright blue eye. He's just an angel.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Now is he three or five? Because I thought you
said five, he's five? Yeah, okay, five? Five okay yeah,
And again I do have the picture posted. Is always
over my social media, so go check it out. We'll
get back to Keil Bossa in a moment. National Cat
Day was earlier this week. You a cat, a dog,
person or both?

Speaker 8 (11:26):
Oh, I love all of them. I love both. They're
just they're so funny. We have so many fun cats
in the shelter too, What about you.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
I like dogs and cats, but lifestyle is more conducive
to the cats. So my wife and I have cats. Yeah, yeah,
cats are simple. Our cats never go out of the house.
They have no people have heard me tell them the
story before. They were both both showed up at our
doorstep as strays. They have no interest in going out whatsoever.
They're They're perfectly perfectly happy to stay in the house. Hey,
I want to ask you a serious question here, and

(11:55):
we have a text about it this morning. Earlier this week,
it was reported that the Charleston Police Department helped rest
a puppy that was tied to a rock down by
the river, and they were asking on social media for
the public to identify who did this. Were you guys
involved in this at all?

Speaker 8 (12:11):
So you were actually talking to the right person. I'm
actually very good friends with the humane officer that was
in charge with us, and she sent me pictures of
her in the river rescuing this dog, and we currently
have the animal in our care.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
He or she.

Speaker 8 (12:26):
Sorry, we thought he was a boy, but she's a girl.
She's doing great. She is the most loving thing in
the world, if if we could like blankets are always
asked and needed if anybody is interested in donating. But
we are definitely involved in that, and we are giving
the animal the best care in the world.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
And so is the animal available for adoption now or
unfortunately not?

Speaker 8 (12:49):
They are actively trying to find an owner.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Charges Yeah, well good, and I hope they find that person,
I really really do. And so the animal is gonna
kind of be held as evidence, I guess right now,
but eventually that animal, hopefully will be will be available
for adoption quickly. Are you guys out and about anywhere
this weekend? I know sometimes you do public events on
the weekend. You get anything going on this weekend that
you're aware of?

Speaker 8 (13:09):
Yeah, We've actually got this thing going on tomorrow. It's
a Tay Valley Petco. We've got a few kittens and
dogs that are gonna be there, and I'm actually going
to be at an adoption event tomorrow at Virginia State University.
We've got a lot of puppies that we're bringing, So
come out and see us.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
All right, Rachel, you did fine, You're gonna do okay
when once you learned to get a little bit more excited. Yes,
appreciate you being here and we'll talk again soon. Thanks
a lot.

Speaker 8 (13:32):
All right, thank you bye.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Rachel Cope again from the Kennel Charleston HU Main Association.
Kia Bassa is our dog, around three years old, super
high energy, just over forty eight pounds, that multi colored eyes, beautiful,
beautiful dog. Good with kids and other dogs. Probably more
playful dogs because he is very energetic. So if you
got a senior dog, probably not a good idea. You
can see his picture. It's posted at Dave Alan Radio
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Good morning, Happy.

Speaker 9 (16:54):
Halloween, Morning, Dave, Happy Halloween.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
All right, So favorite Halloween candy we're asking everybody today.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
Oh gosh, should I be controversial and go with candy corn?

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yes? That would be extremely controversy, extremely controversy. I actually
I'm not a big I'm not a big sweet seater,
to be honest with you. But when I don't mind
candy corn, it's like one of those things. It's one
of those things that people either love or hate. I'm
a big blue cheese guy. People either love blue cheese
or hate blue cheese. There's no in between, my wife
in between on them one. Oh okay, we made some

(17:24):
steaks last night. I want to crumble up little blue
cheese on top of it all right. But anyway, so candy,
corn corn, how about you again, I'm not a big
sweet seat. Give me meat and cheese and I'm perfectly
happy to just just meat and cheese. I will eat
about anything. I really, I really don't care. I don't
really have a favorite to anything.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
You like dark chocolate, but that's not really halloween candy.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, my wife's the big dark chocolate. I mean, she
would gut me in a minute for for some dark
chocolate if I had something.

Speaker 9 (17:54):
That's right, all right?

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Uh, So I want to talk about it. An alumni group.
You said when you were on one of your previous
appearances here that Bridge Valley's looking at doing an alumni group.
Talk about that.

Speaker 5 (18:04):
So, Bridge Valley's only ten years old, we've never had
an alumni association, and so our foundation and alumni association
now exists.

Speaker 9 (18:14):
And so if you are a.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
Graduate from Bridge Valley, from Bridgemont, or from Canaw Valley,
we consider you part of our alumni family.

Speaker 9 (18:22):
And so we have a.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
Group now of former students who have put together this group.

Speaker 9 (18:27):
They're actively recruiting more.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
We'd love more folks to join, and so far they've
done business after hours. They're really working on networking. They're
helping people connect to jobs in the area. They actually
want to hire alumni into their businesses. Now that being
around for ten years, that's enough that people own some
of their own businesses and are interested in recruiting Bridge
Valley students. So we're pretty excited to have it as
an opportunity for people to really re engage with us

(18:51):
and come back to the community if they want to.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
It's hard for me to believe that Bridge Valley has
been around for ten years. In some ways, it seems
like it hasn't been long, But in other ways, it
seems like that it's always been a part of the community.
Does that make any sense.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Well, great, I hope that it feels like we've always.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Been here and that's and again, that's one of the
things that I love about what you folks do out
of Bridge Valley. I mean, again, you're an institution of
higher learning, yes, but do you do a lot of
other things within the community. I know, you just came
off the Pumpkin Drop a couple of weeks ago. That
was a massive success. We had you you know, had
Steve Animal live from there on the mountain. Apologize for that,
but just so many things that you do within the

(19:29):
community that really, in many cases it all ties into
higher education, but sometimes it doesn't. You just do it
because you're here.

Speaker 5 (19:35):
Well, we do it because we're here, but because we
really care about the community. Our mission is specifically this region,
and we really want to make sure people are working
in this region and that they see that there's opportunities here,
and we want to make sure that we're the training
provider that you think of when you're like, gosh, I'm
sick of working retail or fast food and what do
I do? Will you come back to Bridge Valley and
get retrained for something else?

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Talking to doctor Casey Sacks the Bridge Valley. It's nine
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Speaker 9 (20:17):
Oh it's so fun, well, so you're talking about things
we do in the community.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
Family Fun Night is our sort of pre Halloween activity.
It's a trunk of tree. We have bounced castles and
activities for little kids and face painting. We had our
biggest turnout ever this year. It was a part partly
because we partnered with WVU Medicine Thomas Hospitals and so
they also did trigger treat for the kids and lots
of the activities. But we had thirty two hundred people

(20:43):
up in South Charleston. Wow, and it was just fantastic,
so fun.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Thirty two hundred people And what sort of activities did
you have there?

Speaker 5 (20:52):
Face painting, a bounced castle, pizza, tons of candy, so
so much candy. One of the things that I really
like that we do is we bring out all the
first responders, so South Charleston brings up their fire truck,
we have a police cruiser. We have our own ambulance
that we also do as a mobile classroom, and we
let kids walk through those and run the sirens. And

(21:13):
for especially little kids, they might not be thinking already, gosh,
I want to be a paramedic.

Speaker 9 (21:18):
When I grew up.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
But sometimes those early exposures can be quite influential, so
we're hoping for that too well.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
And what I like about events like that, and I
know the City of Charleston does a great job with
their police department and other municipalities do as well, is
sometimes that kids only see the police, They only see
fire and ambulance EMTs first responders when it's a bad situation.
And I think it's an opportunity for them when it

(21:44):
comes to police to be able to say, hey, they're
not the bad guys. They're trying to help us. But
it also gives them an opportunity to check out, you know,
the cool shiny trucks and things of that nature when
it's not an emergency.

Speaker 9 (21:55):
That's great and.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
We want to share those things with people and to
get them thinking about, gosh, maybe I would want to
be on the fire crew and how do I do.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
That and what kind of activity? What kind of courses
do you have for a kid or an adult for
that matter that may want to go into that sort
of thing.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
I mean, I would tell anybody to start with some
of the first responder, basic life support kinds of things.
But we have a full blown paramedic program which is
pretty popular, and that's a good choice because even my husband,
who's retired law enforcement, would say, well you need all
you need all those.

Speaker 9 (22:27):
Skills even in law enforcement, and so a lot of it.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
And I would tell anybody who I'm doing career counseling
with is figure out where you want to work. You
want to go work at South Charleston Fire, Go ask
them exactly what they require, and then just do.

Speaker 9 (22:38):
Those pieces with us.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
I wouldn't tell you to do a full blown program
if they don't require it, but if they do require it,
then come do the program with us.

Speaker 9 (22:46):
We'd love to have you.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Doctor kcy Saxebridge Valleys here. Let's talk about spring registration.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Oh, it's that time. So if you're thinking, gosh, I
want to change my life and I want to go
be a paramedic, or I want to go work in
manufacturing or it or any version of healthcare, whatever that
looks like for you, it's really the time to come register.
So November eleventh, spring registration opens, which is colleague next
week practically, And that's really thinking ahead for your family

(23:16):
and for your life and what is it that you
want to do different So if even if what you
want is the career counseling.

Speaker 9 (23:22):
Come talk to our team so we really can get through. Well,
where should you be studying? What is it that you
might want to go do?

Speaker 3 (23:29):
And I want to ask you, of course, all the
news right now is about the partial government shut down,
and you know, sixteen percent of the population of West Virginia,
it's been documented, received some sort of SNAP benefits. Barring
some sort of a miracle come November first, which is tomorrow,
by the way, that's going to go away at least

(23:49):
at least for a while. That's the way it's looking
right now. What's going on out there with Bridge Valley
as it pretends to do.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
So we actually we know how many of our students
receive SNAP benefits and it's seventy for We have seventy
four students on campus right now who receives SNAP benefits
and they do win tomorrow. And so we've been We
have a food bank on campus all the time. It's
called the Nest and so we always are looking for
food for the food bank. But you know, we have

(24:15):
high school students who are homeless. We have kids who
have real needs in the community, and this is exactly
who you would want to help. So if you're listening
and feeling even a little bit philanthropic. These are people
who are trying to help themselves. They're in a training
program and they're trying to do better, but they need
a little bit of help. So we're thrilled we can
do that with our food pantry. And we're certainly promoting
the two on one that's coming out of the Governor's

(24:36):
office and trying to get people to call two on
one if they need food help and food support. We
have some great food banks in the community, and I
would encourage people to give to any of those if
you're in a position where you can. But we are
also trying to promote with our other students who aren't
receiving benefits, Hey can you bring in non perishables? Can
you bring in things to help each other? But we

(24:58):
do something called Project Thankful everyday, and we have students
who have families that can't afford Thanksgiving sign up and
so far we've had twenty seven families sign up. And
so these are family keep students but who have little
kids and really thinking through how do we do that.
So my office adopts one family and we'll do the

(25:19):
full spread for Thanksgiving. But it's those kinds of things.
So if you don't know who you know, if you're
feeling again like maybe it's the spirit of giving in
the right season and you want to adopt a family,
we have that option.

Speaker 9 (25:32):
For you too.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
And if the public wants to get involved in this,
I mean people listen to that. Maybe don't even have
ties to Bridge Valley. What can they do?

Speaker 5 (25:38):
We'd love to have your support Bridge Valley dot eedu
And then on the top right navigate up to the
foundation and then we have drop down menus so you
can pick whatever it is you're interested in. So if
it's the food pantry, you can pick the nest food pantry.
If it's Project Thankful, you can select that and adopt
a family and or call us and come out and
we'd love to connect you to students who need some support.

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It really does change people's lives, all right.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Remind people where they can check out anything. Hit that
website again repertain.

Speaker 9 (26:06):
To Bridge Valley Bridge Valley dot edu.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Doctor Casey says, Happy Halloween. You go out trick or.

Speaker 9 (26:10):
Treating, thinks I we will give out candy it for.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
You have a lot of trick or treaters at triple about.

Speaker 9 (26:16):
Four hundred and then we turn out the lights.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Okay, and then we're done. Right after that.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
I can't I can't sit there for more than about
two hours.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
All right. I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot.
It is twenty seven minutes away from ten to Dave
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Speaker 3 (28:58):
Twenty four minutes away from on a Friday, Happy Halloween.
Stepanie Paly is our producer Today big Ley Pick League
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three five five zero zero eight. About two hundred and
seventy five thousand West Virginians, or about sixteen percent of
the state's population supported by SNAP benefits. Food banks have
been bracing for spikes and demands as SNAP benefits run dry.

(29:21):
Now you could donate to Facing Hunger Food Bank or
Mountain Your Food Bank by scanning the QR code on
the front page of wv metronews dot com. WVRC Media
Cares about the community. Zach Manerd is going to join
us a little bit later on. He got the appointment
from the governor to be the new States Senator out
in the District seven, replaceding Mike Stewart. Talked to him
coming up a little bit later on story posted at
the website. The Canawa County Emergency Ambulance Authority announced yesterday

(29:44):
it's canceling its contract with high marked Blue Cross Blue
Shield after failing to get a new agreement as it
predains to reimbursement rates. Tom Susman is a spokesperson for
the Ambulance Service Authority. He joins us this morning in
the Jarrett Construction Studios. Good morning, Tom, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Good morning Dave.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
How are you this? I am doing and fine, thank
you for being here. So give us we get the
story at wv Metro news dot com. Give us the
overall what's this? What's this whole thing about?

Speaker 4 (30:07):
So, first off, about seventy five percent of the revenue
for Kanawha County Ambulance comes from PEA, Medicaid, Medicare, and
then there's another portion that is this private pay, third
party reinsurance or third party insurance from companies like Blue Cross,
Blue Shield, Peak.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Health Plan, others.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
We've been working with Blue Cross Blue Shield because their
level of reimbursement for the Kanawa County Ambulance Authority was
below PA and generally for third party payers, and we
talked to the folks from the hospitals, it's about one
hundred and thirty one hundred and fifty percent of Medicare,
So we were at Medicare, if not below Medicare for

(30:50):
a portion at the time. There's a cost to operate
the Kanawh County Ambulance Authority. Those costs have to be met.
We're not asking Blue Cross Blue Shield to cover other
people's costs. We're asking them to step up and do
for the people that they cover. So let me give
you an example of the number kind of data point. Okay,
last year, I think for this group of people, and

(31:12):
this would be private pay, third party companies, their self insurance,
their network access. This is not medicare, this is not medicaid.
I think they paid about one point four million or
not paid. We build them about one point four billion.
They paid us about four hundred thousand dollars. Now, if
you had a grocery store and you were charging one

(31:33):
point four million dollars for services, but people only paid
four hundred thousand dollars, you couldn't sustain. We want to
have a sustainable operation. The company had a deficit. They're
working down the deficit. They're doing all types of changes.
They've reduced the employment. They are working to refine the

(31:53):
way they purchased ambulances. Instead of going out and buying
brand new ambulances all the time, they're taking the old
boxes and putting them on new chests. I mean, there
are steps they're taking to better allocate resources. As part
of that, they looked at what people were paying the
authority for services. And we're talking about insurance companies and
Blue Cross Blue Shield was woefully underpaying the authority. We're

(32:15):
not asking for them to get to the one hundred
and fifty level of Medicare, but we'd like to get
something that would help sustain that agency, and that's where
we're working through. The Authority decided that if you're going
to do this, give people sixty day notice. We're in
Medicare open enrollment, so if people wanted to make a
change because of this contract dispute, they have plenty of

(32:38):
time to do it. Employers are generally making benefit decisions
during this period for the coming year. That way, they
were on notice because this will not take effect until
January one. Hopefully we can work this out and come
to some type of resolution, but the authority has a
responsibility to ensure that there is long term sustainability for

(33:02):
the AMLETCE company.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Talking to you with Tom Susman, who's a spokesperson for
the Ambutate Service Authority. Okay, let me give you an example,
because as you and I were talking doing to break,
everybody wants to know what does it mean to me?
And that's okay. I have Blue Cross Blue Shield and
through my through this company w DRC Media metrin Is,
I have Blue Cross Blue Shield. I am Heaven Forbid.
I have a medical emergency okay, uh, car accident, you know,
heart attack, whatever, and it's after this January first, what happens.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
Well, hopefully we've come to a resolution, Okay, if we have,
but if we have not, we've not come for a resolution.
And if West Virginia Radio still has Blue Cross Blue Shield,
because I'm sure your plan year is January one, then
what will happen is you'll probably get the bill from
us instead of US building the insurance company, and then
you'll have to submit that to the insurance company to
get paid whatever they'll pay, and then we'll balance bill
you for the difference.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yeah, as opposed to the insurance you know, just paying
a percentage or whatever. I mean, the bill is going
to come to me and I got to figure out
a way to pay.

Speaker 13 (33:54):
And it's not cheap, Tom, and it's not cheap. We
don't do this is this is not something that was done.
That was done the one thing that Blue Cross does,
and we're going to take it to the legislature. So
if we're not contracted with one of the other companies
for emergent care, they will allow you to assign that
benefit to us. So then if we bill them, we'll
get paid. Blue Cross Blue Shield does not do that

(34:16):
for a non contracted emergent provider, and that's not right,
you know, for the scheduled appointments.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
You made a choice on whether you're getting an in
network or a non network physician, doctor, physical therapist, whatever
for an ambulance. That's not correct. Emergency room is not
correct because emergent care. There should be no discrimination in
terms of payment for mergent care.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, I mean, it makes complete sense to me. And
I know Jeff and the folks in the newsroom did
a news story and they actually talked to a spokesperson
for Blue Cross Blue Shit, because we want to be
fair and get there to get their other side of
it as well. But Dave Island Show on five eighty
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Al Right, so we're looking to January first. What happens
between now and January first?

Speaker 4 (35:07):
Well, well, we're going to talk internally. We'll reach back
out to Blue Cross to see if they'd like to
sit down and have further discussions. And then for folks
that are looking at medicare advantage or they're looking at
their business insurance, they need to take this into consideration,
you know, when they make their choices.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
But we're hopeful that this is going to work out.
This is not the be all end all were there's
ever and there are negotiations going on. As which week discussions.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
There were some discussions that are going on, and we're
we hope the next week to can to to restart
these discussions.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
All right, Happy Halloween.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Happy Halloween to you.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
First, Uh, your favorite candy. First, to your trigger treat candy.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
It's the the caramel corn.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Okay, corn, yeah, candy corn. Yeah. You and doctor Sex
said the same thing.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
Well, then when I was a kid, I used to
play like I had vampirety.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Well you don't do that anymore. To please tell me
you don't still do that.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
I will never ever disclose this on the grounds that
it may incriminate me for future radio interviews.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
All Right, Tom, I appreciate you coming in, and you
came in on short notice because again, this story just
broke yesterday and I know Jeffetable. Folks did an interview
with you, but I wanted to have you come in
to kind of break it down to people because again,
because you well know, people want to know, how does
this impact me? That's what people want to know.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
And that's why we wanted to be sure and give
plenty of notice so that if folks did want to
make a plan change, they could make a plan.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
All right, and I'll give you like the final thirty
seconds to speak. I may have the ambulance services ory.
What do you want the people to know?

Speaker 4 (36:37):
One is that regardless of your ability to pay, we
will continue to serve you were Emergent Care twenty four
to seven. Regardless of insurance or carrier, you will receive
the services that you need from Kanack County Ambulance.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
All right, appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot man.
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five zero zero. We have a new state senator representing
District seven. That announcement coming from the governor. He's former
Delagate Zach Maynard, and he joins us now in the
General Construction studios. Good morning, sir, welcome to the show.

Speaker 18 (40:12):
Congratulations, thank you, thank you great to be here today
in the studio, and thanks.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
For having me explain the district.

Speaker 18 (40:18):
Yeah, so, I mean the you know, we we every
ten years we redistrict in the state of West Virginia.
And uh, you know, we used to the old the
old seventh Senatorial District used to be parts of Mingo,
parts of Wayne, Lincoln, Logan, and Boom. And with the
population loss and you know, these districts down south are
getting they're getting a little bit bigger. But the district's Lincoln,

(40:41):
All Lincoln, All Logan, All Boom, and parts of eastern
Kanall County and what I would say this Saint Auban
side to the Tornado side of Conall County. So I
explained that as the big ben region.

Speaker 14 (40:54):
Good.

Speaker 18 (40:55):
Yeah, because I'm a frequent golfer there, so so yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
How's your golf game? Oh man?

Speaker 18 (41:01):
You know it's slowly coming along with some well, you know,
I had a golfer tell me it's kind of like
fine wine, it gets better with age.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
So I'm hoping.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
I'm hoping. So I needed TJ. Meadows is ours our
resident golfer here. So you'll have to meet TJ. He'll
come in after you and you can talk about him.
You guys can talk golf, all right, So talk about
the the appointment. There were three people, and I guess
the Executive Committee puts forth three names. Talk about how
that processes.

Speaker 18 (41:25):
Yeah, I mean we're very fortunate in the Republican Party
to have such great candidates. I mean we had ex
ceo coal coal mine owners, uh, co operators. Uh, we
had you know, Vice Presidence of the Coal Association.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
I mean some.

Speaker 18 (41:43):
Really just great people. And then you know the three
names that got picked. Monica Booth just a great person,
does really good with uh, you know, domestic violence and
stuff and and and and really you know, puts uh
puts effort in that. And then we had dust More,
who's who's a great I worked with Mike Stewart, you know.
So we had really good candidates, and you know, the

(42:05):
committee uh took took their time and peaked three names,
and those names went to the governor.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
And and of course you're a former member of the House. Yeah,
so some people will start in the House and go
to the Senate. Some people will start, you know, just
in the Senate. What what do you think having been
a delegate lends to this new role? What kind of
talk about your experience?

Speaker 18 (42:26):
Yes, so, I mean one is the is the process?
I don't think you know, you you get well one,
there's one hundred people in this in the House and
thirty four in the Senate. But you know, I think
the is you know, how how you get a bill,
how do you get the stakeholders, you know, how do
you get people around a certain legislation to pass it?

(42:47):
Understanding how to do constituent services. I think that's the
biggest thing when it comes to a lot of this stuff.
But also, you know, what I've realized too is a
lot of the people that I served with that were
delegates are now senators, you know, So it's uh, it's
good to see familiar faces. But I think as there
is an overlap, you know, I guess I'm gonna have
an assistant that's going to be able to you know,

(43:08):
send some emails, take some phone calls, and in the House,
you do all that by yourself, you know, if you know,
or we share one, five or six of us shared one, right,
so I mean, but also you know we have one
hundred you know, we have a lot of Republicans over
on the House, and we have a lot in the
Senate to where you know, those responsibilities were spread out.

(43:31):
You know, you still have to have the same committee
meetings and the Senate and that stuff. So but it
gets me prepared because I've ran a campaign. You know,
I've I've I've done the constituent service I've I've I've
done you know, the hard votes and the and the
things that is needed to be productive at this job.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Sorry about talking to you. Zach Maynard, who is the
new state senator out of District seven. So, what's the
process look like when you're actually sworn in because you're
not technically the senator. You got the appointment, but you've
not been sworn in anything.

Speaker 18 (43:57):
Yeah, So Wednesday at noon, I'm going to be sworn in,
So you know, gonna get the family up for that,
friends and stuff and do that. So you know the
process is just you know, getting getting the judge. I'm
Stacy Eldridge is gonna be Judge Eldridge is going to
be the one swearing me in on Wednesday. So we're
just really excited to get started.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Speaking of family, you got to throw something out there.

Speaker 18 (44:21):
Yeah, I just yeah, my wife, she turns twenty one today.
Oh okay, no, she's turns thirty three. And uh she's
my high school sweetheart, love of my life, and we
have three we have two beautiful little girls at home,
and I'd just like to wish her a happy birthday.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
I was gonna see you told me that out there,
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that district is Zach. I mean, you talked about you're
a Lincoln County guy. Okay, so you got that, you
got all the Logan County, and you got Boom, we
got Kanawa, and I mean, and I talked about this
with a political figure I have on In some ways,

(45:21):
there's a lot of similarities, but in some ways there's
a lot of differences, and that's a lot of ground
to cover.

Speaker 18 (45:27):
No, I mean, look, I think you might have been
my constituent in my old district of when I was
a delegate Lincoln, Logan, Boom, and Putnam. You're talking about
Chaptonville to Hurricane.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (45:37):
Right, So it's the same type of layout for me.
But you know, one thing we do have in common
is that we are cold country. A lot of that
is cold country, eastern Kenall County, Marmett to Montgomery. You know,
it doesn't really change from you know, Pexmeal to the Hearts.
You know, it's it's kind of the same, we're kind
of the same people, same area. It's southern West Virginia.

(45:59):
But it is a bit district and you know, for me,
I'll have to get out beat on those doors in
eastern Kennall County the same I'll do in Man, West Virginia.
So I'm excited to serve those people. But there is differences.
I mean, I mean that you know, you have alam
Creek and that area.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
So that's where that's where our producers from. That's why
that that big noise you heard in there, that was
from staff of the air producer.

Speaker 18 (46:21):
She's a alam Aldam creeker. Yeah creek, but no for
all all. I mean, just to look at the district.
I think it's set up a great a great way.
People have a lot of similarities and now I'm excited
to get out and work for them.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
And what do you want people to know about you
that don't know you? Because I mean, again, you were
in the house, but I mean for some of these people,
you're you're brand new to them. So give us a
little bit of your your background. I mean, uh, you
know what legend. We know you're a former uh delegate,
But there's more to Zach Mander than just that. So
give us your background. Yeah.

Speaker 18 (46:53):
So, I mean I grew up in Heart's, West Virginia
where I live now. I haven't you know, very I
have uh you know, I went down a couple couple uh, well,
went down the road to where I was raised at.
But no, I went to Chaptanville High School on a
state championship there. I always like to throw that in
for the for everybody.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Game tonight for Chapmanville Big game.

Speaker 18 (47:13):
So but no, I mean was a Tiger. And then
you know, went on to West Virginia Tech and played
some baseball there and got my degree there. But you know,
then I started a business, you know, started multiple businesses,
and I'm a businessman and and just loved being an
entrepreneur and hiring people and trying to you know, create something.

(47:34):
But no, I think, you know, looking at this district,
it's it's made for It's made for somebody like me.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
I mean it.

Speaker 18 (47:42):
I'm from Lincoln County. I graduated from Logan County, shop
at Logan County, you know, pay my taxes in Lincoln County,
banking Boom County. You know, I have a lot of
friends in Boom County, and I graduate. I was one
of the last classes at West Virginia Tech.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
So I know that Eastern.

Speaker 18 (47:58):
Commons side and you can find me in the summer
probably once every two weeks at Big Ben. So you know,
I feel like I really have an understanding of if
you call me and you say, hey, I'm here and
I need to drink or I need help, I can
kind of put that piece together geographically where you're at.
But no, I'm I and you know, you know, I

(48:19):
think people the one thing I would want to say.
You know, I'm a social conservative, god family country. So
I think that's a big deal where we come from.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
What's what are you excited to get to work on?
Because West Virginia is doing well in many areas, but
we got we got some struggles. We've got to get
people here, you know. I mean that's a big problem,
especially in the area that you are from and where
you currently reside. I mean, what are you excited to
get to work on?

Speaker 18 (48:43):
Yeah, you know, when when I was alleged, when I
first came in as a delegate, you know, we we
had financial pains for the state. We were in a hole,
and then we went on this great run. I mean,
you know, with a former governor Justice and the things
that we were able to accomplished, and and you know,
working with Roger of Speaker Hanshaw and and the Senate

(49:05):
presidents that were there. You know, we really I think
we financially really took a took the state on the
right path. And I think moving forward, you know, we're
gonna have to do the same, but we're also gonna
have to fix some liability issues that we have. For
me personally, what I would like to work on. You know,
I'm a vocational guy. I think that. You know, I've

(49:25):
always heard stories from my I was raised by my grandparents,
and you know, one of the things they always said,
you know, when they left West Virginia to go find
work out of town, it was one of those things
to where if you was from West Virginia, you got
hired automatically, automatical because your work ethics. So I think,
you know, we're looking at now you can you know,
one of the things about like in Logan County, and

(49:47):
I think in Boom County too, and maybe Kennall County
or in Lincoln County, maybe all of them. But now
you have seniors that are graduating with associate's degrees. You know,
they're able to go to Southern Community College for the
last couple of years of high school and then graduate
with an associate's degree. I would like to elaborate on that. Yeah,
I would like for us to have ninth and tenth

(50:09):
graders to be able to enroll in vocational school. If
you know, blue collar, if you want to go work
and be a plumber, be an HVC, be electrician, do
those types of jobs. If that's really what you want
to do at a young age, we shouldn't stop you.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
And I think if most kids know that, yeah, I
mean or not everybody does that knows that, Zach. But
I think most kids, going back to my experience one
hundred years ago, I knew what time I was in
fifth or sixth grade what I wanted to do, and
they man know exactly. But they know that they're good
with their hands, they know what they're crafty that way.

Speaker 18 (50:42):
Yeah, they know that they like to work with their
dad in the backyard and like to work with Grandpaul,
you know, and do those things. But my you know,
my biggest thing is I went to vocational school and
I went to a four year college and got a degree.
It doesn't stop you from doing that. But I think,
you know, we asked general. We go and go throughout America,
the generationations, and we think that you know, eighteen year
old's not you know, we call them a kid now.

(51:05):
You know, forty years fifty years ago, we were sending
them on planes to fight in wars. Right, So I
think we need to give more responsibility to the youth
and get them ready to go in the workforce. So
I would like to set up programs or set up
you know, some legislation that works with that works with
kind of you know that works with kind of the

(51:27):
trade schools and the community colleges, because if you look
at the community college, as Dave, we're set up to
do those things, to give those certain certifications and get
these folks going in the workforce.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
That congratulations. We've got to cut it short, but I
appreciate you taking time. You already scheduled to be here.
We've got Meadows and Wilson in here. Meadows. Zach is
a golfer as well, So you guys got stuff to
talk about here. Somen I mean, can you give him
any tips? By the way, I'm gonna throw you something
out here. I had a text here that said, you
told your first lie, you play somebody played Gramble with

(52:00):
you and Josh Barker and you got smoked.

Speaker 18 (52:03):
That's that's probably true. Do you want to Josh is
not very well versed and it's a biolf.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Games so that I mean that was from our good
friend Brasle It was. It wasn't a scramble. That was
our good friend Brad's story. Who set that in?

Speaker 7 (52:14):
Now?

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Just say set that to my personal phone? All right,
you guys, give me ten seconds what you got on
the show today? Steam release? All right, eleven thirty three Meadows.
We'll talk to the Roan County Superintendent at ten oh
six on consolidation.

Speaker 17 (52:25):
Right.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
I'll be back later day with Metro News midday. Happy
Halloween folks. I will see you later on midday. Till then,
have fun and love somebody