11/11/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Dr. Casey Sacks, Dr. Craig Glover, Ric Cavender

Dave talks with Dr. Casey Sacks of BridgeValley, Dr. Craig Glover of Family Healthcare Centers and Ric Canvender of Charleston Urban works.

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were nine o'clock last night. Lots of accidents last night,
lots of this morning as well. Of course, many of
you had the day off for Veterans Day, and the
weather is going to get a lot better throughout the day,
at least as far as the snow goes, not necessarily
the temperatures, but by the end of the week we're
in the sixties, maybe even touched in seventy. Speaking of veterans,
they want to wish everyone in a happy Veterans Day,
remember why it is we're allowed to do what we

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do each day and because of our veterans. We have
more on that coming up a little bit later. On
Also tomorrow night, the Charleston Urban Works folks are going
to present their annual Urbanite Awards. I am honored to
be asked to service in MC along with Woody Woods
for that particular event. Cabinet from Charleston Urban Works is
going to join us to talk about that. Doctor Craig
Lover Family Care Health Centers. We'll stop by as well,

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good friend, doctor Casey Sacks Abridge Valley.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
How you doing?

Speaker 6 (02:38):
Good morning, Dave.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I'm great.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
How are you doing? I am doing fine? Great to
have you here. I mean, it's like the third time
in a row you've been in person. Hey, once in
a while, that just happens. It just happens that way.
What's the I was thinking about this earlier when it
comes to you and other institutions of higher learning. I
can remember, you know, one hundred years ago when I
was in college that at Marshall, hundred years I am,
I am one hundred and three. At Marshall, they didn't

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have as many quote unquote snow days because the majority
of the students either lived on campus or they live
like I did, within walking distance of campus. So it
is very rare that there would ever be a delay
or anything like USh. We're also talking literally thirty three
thir nome sorry, how little bit thirty five years ago
that I was there, so it wasn't that common now.

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The third mouth was not. I was a PR major,
so math not my major. All right, So how do
you guys handle things at Bridge Valley or other? I mean,
how do you what goes into it now? Because so
much is online and so much is available now, So
how do you handle snow days?

Speaker 6 (03:38):
We also rarely have snow days. A lot of times
snow days for counties are because little kids are standing
outside at bus stops, so you want to make sure
they're not too cold and that they're safe. But at
the college, we actually go off whatever the capital complex
schedule is or a state agency. We have state employees,
so we go ahead and say we stay open as

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long as the Capital Complex is open. If we do
close the physical location, we still go online. So it
doesn't mean there's no class. It means work directly with
your faculty member and say, hey, Dave, what is it
that I'm supposed to be working on today, and you
do whatever it is your I.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Had a feeling you want to say that about the
online thing, because I mean, even in public schools, you know,
online learning has ruined snow days for the most now
sometimes well today's day off for most county school systems. Anyway,
I think pretty much everybody in West Virginia takes the
day off, not necessarily in other states they don't for
Veterans Day. But I think that unless it's like, you know,
when you had a couple of big snows like we

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had last year, I think, you know, the superintendents and
whatnot just said, all right, go play in the snow,
go write a paper about it later or something. You know,
go go play in the snow. Just it just is
not what it used to. Speaking to Veterans Day, did
want to give you an opportunity to say something about veterans.

Speaker 6 (04:50):
So we are open today. We take Veterans Day off
December twenty ninth. But today we have a ceremony for
our veterans, a celebration for our veterans on the South
Charleston campus. It's a luncheon. We've invited all of our
student veterans. We have a local group of gold Star
Moms who come in and do awards. We have done
quilts before, We've done quilts for veterans as awards.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
We have.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
Actually, the West Virginia Veteran of the Year is on
our staff and so she'll be honored today Jammy McClanahan. Okay,
So we're really proud of her and we'll be well,
we'll have an entire ceremony today.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
What time is that ceremony starts at noon? Okay, what
time do you think? And here's the reason I'm asking.
I've got I've got selfish reasons here. We were talking
Stephanie Pauli, who produces Metro News midday, is also producing
the local show today, and we were talking about that
earlier about you know, we've got some things already lined
up for veterans, but uh, if we could make if
we could make that work, she would make a great
veteran do you think he could make that happen?

Speaker 6 (05:47):
Come on over, we'd love it.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Well, no, we we have to call her.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
Oh so I tell you what.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Once we break, why don't you and Stephanie have a
little conversation there and let's even get this thing worked out.
We'd love to have her on the show. Oh, she
would love that. All right, we'll presentage of the population
or well, let me just say, is it a large
percentage of population students that you have that are veterans
at Bridge Valley?

Speaker 6 (06:05):
So it varies every year, but it's actually something we're
really proud of. We have been honored for years and
years now going in a row. There's a distinction for
colleges where you become a veteran friendly college, and so
every year we make sure that we do all of
the things to get that distinction. It means we have
special lounges for our veterans students, it means we have
special services for our veterans students. It means we really

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are an institution that's committed to serving our veterans in
some pretty intentional ways. And our director of Veteran Services
is Missy Lair, and anybody who knows Missy just really
knows what a passion she has for the population. She
could not be better at her job.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Does Bridge Valley have an ROTC program? We do not
have an ROTC. Is that something that you could do
in the future or is.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
It or not?

Speaker 6 (06:47):
Certainly something I would be open to. It's just not
something I've looked into.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Okay, all right, Well you need more on your plate
to do out there. Yeah, you got so many other
things to doctor k Cy Sachs of a Bridge Valley.
We want to talk about the efforts doctor, that the
Bridge Valley are taking to help students that have West
Virginia ties.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
Oh, we're so excited about this, Dave. So our board
realized that there could be any number of family circumstances.
Your grandparents might be here and maybe a family moved
over to Kentucky or decided to go to Ohio, but
the grandkids still really love West Virginia might want to
come back. Or you might have a family that's split
and mom and dad live in two separate states. But

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what we've gone ahead and done is said that for
anybody who has a parent or grandparent who's lived in
West Virginia for at least a year, we'll give them
in state tuition at Bridge Valley. We want people to
move back to West Virginia. We want them to come
to Bridge Valley because we know students who graduate with
us work in this area. So we felt like it
was a really great incentive to get people to think

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about coming back to West Virginia, and it was something
we could do to make it a little bit more affordable.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
And anything we could do to get people either to
come back to West Virginia, even if those people like
you said that had ties to West Virginia, like our
grandparents were here, not not necessarily, well.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
They just visited in the summer and they were Wow,
we like it here.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
All right, good stuff. Bring them back please and get
them to stay for a while. Doctor Casey Saxebridge Values
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The college got some federal highway grants. What's what's in
all about we did, and.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
It was so a year ago we found out that
we were shortlisted for a federal Department of Transportation grant
and it's taken some time to work through the process,
but we just recently officially got announced that we're one
of sixteen colleges across the country that'll get highway grant
dollars that'll help support our highway construction programs. So we
do a lot for anybody at the Department of Transportation

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who's doing bridge construction, highway construction, they come in andto
associates degrees with us, and so this allowed us to
open that up to more people and to really think
about construction in some new ways.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
I want to ask you, you know, it appears now
and we'll talk about this a little later on that
the government shut down appears to be coming to an end,
appears to But you guys, you talked about this a
little last time. You're on a casey, you guys are
really ramping up your average and they have been helped
students that receive SNAP benefits.

Speaker 8 (09:22):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (09:22):
We have seventy four students at Bridge Valley who are
currently SNAP recipients, and we really want to make sure
they get fed. So we've been partnering with local food banks.
We have our own food pantry on campus called the Nest,
and we're really trying to do any kind of community
outreach we can to make sure those people have enough food.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
It's so important.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
This is a group of folks who are going to school,
they're trying to do better for their families. And it's
not just the seventy four students. They represent a whole family.
So you could multiply it by two, or by five,
or by eight. I know we have one family that
is a young man. He is the person who's providing
for his family and currently going to school, and there's

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eight of them, and so really thinking about that, these
are people who live in our community and who need
our help.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
And look, I will say this, and we all know
that there's fraud and abuse in every system. However, when
you hear stories like that and you think these are
in the majority, or you know a great number of
people that do receive night benefits are working a great
number of the issues.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
These are going to school, and some of them also
have jobs, and these.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
These are going that's what it's going to say. These
are going to school and in many time in many places,
so they're trying to better themselves. And I think that
that pantry that you have there is awesome. I mean,
how long has that been around?

Speaker 6 (10:38):
Well, I started in twenty one and it was there
when I got there, so I can't take credit for that.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well, it's still a great program. You have a new
name on campus, the new vice president for Academics.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
We do.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
She's wonderful, So doctor Christina Johnson. She's local, she's up
from Gollybridge area and she's been with the college for
years and years. She was with Tech, been with Bridgemont,
then with Bridge Valley and has been a dean and
taught science. Lots of people listening today may have had
her as a science teacher at some point. But she
is going to be our new vice president for academics.

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We're super excited. Doctor Susette Breeden is retiring in January,
so we are sad that she's retiring, but excited that
doctor Johnson will be joining us.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
What exactly are the duties of the vice president for Academics.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
A lot of it is campus supervision. They supervise every
single academic program, so it's all of the deans, all
of the faculty, any of the things that happen in
a classroom. That's her purview.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Doctor Casey, Saxonbridge Valley, it's always a pleasure to have
you on the show. Thank you so great to be here.
Thanks a lot. We'll talk again probably later this month,
and I want to hook you up with Stephanie so
we can talk about this veterans thing for later today.
We're always planning the state. Wheels are always turning, and
I'm so glad they sometimes, you know, turn slowly, but
they're freaky.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
They're turning.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
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a question here for you. You've read somebody just text

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in the question you ever considered a shuttle bus or
possibly a car pool of some sorts. For those who
want to come to school. We don't have access to
a vehicle and live in a very rural area. We've
tried you can sit down behind the microphone. Yeah, I mean,
if you don't mean is it something that this is
something that you would look at.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
So we've tried car pools before. There were a variety
of safety concerns and so students could can still do
that and we would.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Encourage it, but it was not something that the college
can necessarily. That's right.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
We've talked about shuttle buses. It's been a thing that
we instead really try and partner with KRT on and
I know that KRT has been trying to figure out
how to do more of those on demand routes for
rural areas because they're better equipped to run a shuttle
bus than we are GOTA. So it's it's constantly a
work in Progress's wonderful. I know he's been on before

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I don't hell you and has been really committed to
trying to figure out how to get more rural access.
But it's such a great question.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Right, all right, So now you have two things that
you've got to got to get an RTC program and
again that's have that wrapped up when you come back
on a lead to this morth Okay, all right, thanks
for that, Doctor Casey Sacksonbridge Valley. It's nightsway. We'll take
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Let me welcome to down, doctor Craig Lover Family Care
Health Centers. Good morning and welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (16:15):
Stir.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
How are you.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'm doing well, Thank you for having me, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
For being here. All right, First, explain the concept of
the family care health centers for lives and may not
be familiar with them.

Speaker 11 (16:23):
Sure, So, family care health center. We're providers of healthcare.
We do everything from pre natal and we have a
birth center. We do traditional healthcare, primary care type things.
We have an urgent care setting, and we now have
a pharmacy. That's what you're here to talk about. Is
this pharmacy, So talk about that.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (16:44):
So we built a pharmacy in the Saint Albans Loop.
It's next door to our Saint Albans location, which offers
primary care and behavior health and other services as well
as urgent care. So we created this pharmacy so that patients,
family care patients as well as folks in the community
would have access to prescription drugs.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
And that's what that was gonna be. My next question
was what went into coming up with this. Obviously you
saw a need for this.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
We did see a need for it.

Speaker 11 (17:11):
So one, we wanted to make sure that people had
access to the medications that they need. We participate in
some federal programs that allow us to buy some drugs
at a discount and were able to pass that discount
along to our patients, So that was important for us.
There's a lot of things that go on behind the
scenes with drug manufacturers and how they distribute some of

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the medications to organizations like ours, So we also wanted
to make sure we had more control over that process,
and the best way for us to do that was
to create a pharmacy in house.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Indeed, we talked to do with doctor Craig Lover and
what kind of an undertaking was that for you, folks?
I mean, how difficult is that to come up with
something like this.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
There's a lot that goes into it.

Speaker 11 (17:52):
There's a lot of regulations around pharmacy and those types
of things, but we were able to get through all
of those. We had to build a build, so we
were fortunate that we were able to do that.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
This is a new building.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
It's a brand new facility, okay, and.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's located at twelve canaal Terrace in Saint Albans right
right exactly, and the loop in the loop. Everybody in
Saint Albans knows about the loop and you're gonna have
a ribbon cutting, I understand, coming up Thursday, is that right?

Speaker 11 (18:18):
Yes, Thursday at ten am, we'll have a ribbon cutting,
our official grand opening of that site. Even though the
site has been opened for I think we're now in
week three today, so we had a soft opening, but
official unveiling presenting it to the public is on this
coming Thursday at ten am.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
So we want to invite everybody to come out and
check it out. You know, I'm sure you have tours
of the civility, some refreshments and things like that.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yep, we'll have all that all right.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Then you get to a chance to, as I said,
to ask questions. And you know, there's the world of pharmacies,
as you well know, has changed so much, you know,
the last couple of years. You know, I mean twenty
years ago, you got a prescription, you went to whomever,
and you know, your local pharmacy was a big deal.
You know, you went in and yeah, it's not that
way anymore. It's just a lot more complicated now.

Speaker 11 (19:04):
Formacy is a very very very complicated process. There's so
many things that go on in the back end that
results in a patient walking out of a pharmacy with
with the bottle of pills. And so we've learned this
over the past several years of where we fit into
that continuum, if you will. And again, part of us
creating the formacy is we're trying to simplify that for

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our patients. We don't want them to have to deal
with all of the back end things that go into
prescription medication management and we just want them to be
able to get the medication that they need at a
price point that they can afford.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Indeed, indeed, and that's and you guys, I mean, and
I've had you and others on from your organization several
several times on the local show here, and you guys
just do so much for the community. And one of
the things I really like about you is whenever there's
an event going on, you guys are there. I mean,
when we do our activities here, you know, we do
trick or beat and I'm just using that as an example,

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or we do the backpack attack or whatever. You guys
have always got a booth and you're always willing to
give back to the community, and that's something that goes
with being local people.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Talk about that. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (20:09):
Absolutely, So we are a community health center, and I
think of that word community as really a sort of
a verb. I understand English. I know it's now, but
we look at it as being a verb. We have
to be out in our community. We want to be involved.
We're partners, and we'd also don't want to be seen
as just we're just taking from the community. We want
to be able to give back. So, yes, we support

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things that happen in our community. We are a local organization.
We're not part of some big national organization. We are
from West Virginia, where West Virginians, we employee West Virginians,
and we want to support our community.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Talk about your average patient that comes in for you know,
not necessarily for the pharmacy, but your healthcare. I mean,
just you see it, that runs a gamut just to
all walks of life.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
It really does run the gamut of all walks of life.
I would say.

Speaker 11 (20:56):
Our specialty though, and one of our big focuses creating
access to health care for underserved folks. So we do
see people who are homeless, we see folks who are
living in poverty. We accept Medicaid. We also work with
folks who are totally uninsured. When we meet a new patient,
we try to see can we find coverage for you?

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Can we get you on Medicare or Medicaid? Can you
buy a plan on the open exchange? If none of
those works, we don't turn your way. We still see you.
We offer our services on a sliding fee scale, which
means we charge people based on what they can afford
to pay.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
And how often do you see patients like that doctor?

Speaker 3 (21:34):
We see them daily. We see them daily.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
And so somebody, like I said, shows up and they've
been a little bit you know, sometimes no follow their
own it's an economic situations you said. They could be homeless,
they could be or just woefully underpaid or whatever. Under insured,
under insured, underinsured. Take us through that process. I mean
I come in and I fall into one of those categories.
Just take me through the process.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yes, so you come in.

Speaker 11 (22:00):
The first thing is we will connect you with someone
in our eligibility department. They're specialists in getting people enrolled
in Medicaid, Medicare, purchasing plans on the exchange. So we
try to go through those options to see can we
find you some level of coverage and if we can, great,
we'll get your role.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
We'll get you an appointment, but.

Speaker 11 (22:19):
If we can't, then we assess your income, family size,
and then we tell you what your charge will be
for the service. For some of our folks, we charge
them a nominal fee, which is twenty twenty five bucks
for a visit, and for them they come in, they
pay twenty five dollars. Maybe they had a visit that
had a value of five hundred dollars. You pay twenty dollars,

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we stamp your bill paid in full, and you keep going.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
It is an amazing business model. But it's not just
a business model, Doctor Deliver. It's much more than that.
It's helping people.

Speaker 11 (22:51):
Absolutely. Our whole thing. Our mission is about helping people
and creating healthy communities.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
That's what the whole goal is.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
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Come out and towards the facility find out what it
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(28:22):
Cabot for Charleston Urban Works. Hewin you't doing? Man? Good
morning sir?

Speaker 9 (28:25):
How you been?

Speaker 2 (28:25):
I am doing fine?

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Back here?

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I forget You've got that big booming voice.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Man, is it?

Speaker 2 (28:29):
I've been told that before? Is it the thing? I'm
a radio guy. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you what. Yeah,
I'd like to have your voice. Really, you had a
much better voice, though. That is a that is it
from you? That is a compliment. I mean, and I
don't get those from you.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Your dad.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
We go way back. We just don't have to compliment
each other. But I appreciate that you actually you have
a you have a you have a really good voice. Well,
thank you would like to do a radio show, I
would love that. I'm just in another life. I'm just saying,
does I have so much time? Well just come on
over here now. Yeah, I see it, Dave, take on
the rest of the day, all right. Uh So this
awards sting Tomorrow Night, the Urban Night Urbanight Awards.

Speaker 13 (29:02):
Yeah, And like we've been talking about on morning, is
this is the first time we've had uh we've had
sponsors every year, but certainly we've expanded those sponsorships through
media partnerships for this. And so you know a lot
of folks, if they're outside of the circle, if you will,
they may not have heard of our Urban Night Awards.
But this is actually our ninth year that we've that
we've done. These awards are always in November. It's always

(29:24):
sort of a wrap up of the year, a celebration
of the year.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (29:27):
And it's solely focused on the business owners, the employees,
the property owners, civic leaders, artists and volunteers that that
we want to shine a spotlight on on them, the
folks that have really helped move our mission along as
an organization and breed new life into these urban districts

(29:48):
here in Charleston. So you know, we we give awards
in eight categories. I can tell you that our fellow
Leadership West Virginia classmate Mayor Amy Schuler Goodwin will be
presenting our big award of the night, the Urban Night
of the Year Award, to our surprise honoree.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
And I like that.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
So it's just a surprise he or she or the
group whatever does doesn't know. Most most of our recipients
don't know. We have a few that do, but most
of them don't. We've been difficult with that. It's it's
it's a lot of work. Well, but the reason I
say that is because we think, you know, from somebody
who comes from a small town like I do. I
consider Charleston to be a big town, but it's really not,
you know, and everybody kind of knows everybody and so

(30:27):
on and so forth, and so if you have the
ability to be able to keep that quiet, that's that's
pretty good. Yeah. Well for me, it's a lot of fun.
We you know, we work, so we work.

Speaker 13 (30:35):
We stay so busy throughout the year, you know, fulfilling
our mission, whether that's thro our events that we do,
through our public space enhancement projects, through our programming, our
shop local initialis all the things we do as an organization.
We say, we say so busy that for us at
the end of the year, for our board and our
staff to be able to turn around and and thank
and congratulate and shine a spotlight on these folks who

(30:56):
have made our work so enjoyable and rewarding. Frankly, is
really a tree for us. So that's one reason why
I think we love these awards so much.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
So who who? How do you go about choosing who
gets the award? Question?

Speaker 13 (31:08):
We we take sort of, we unofficially take nominations just
from our board members and people in the public throughout
the year, and then we have a selection committee comprised
of our working group and board members that meet and
they they sort of assess all those nominations and in
the eight categories that the Urban Ight Awards are presented.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
In and they make they make their decision.

Speaker 13 (31:30):
We have a committee that does that and they represent
every sort of facet of the City of Charleston, as
far as different professions, different backgrounds, as far as where
they live geographically. It's a it's a really good, well rounded,
diverse group of people that help us pick these.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Awards and talk about those categories.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (31:46):
So the the first award of the evening is the
Rookie of the Year Awards. So that's a business that's
been an operation for a year or less.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (31:53):
The second award is the Game Changer Award, and that's
business or property owners who are making lasting impact throughout
the districts. The next award is the Urban ear which
is the Urban Pioneer Award, and that's given to a
business to businesses that are in operation for ten years
or more that sort of blaze the trail for those
who have come after them. The next is the Employee

(32:16):
of the Year Award, which is one of my favorites
because we get to honor sort of the frontline staff,
and that's the baristas, the bartenders, the servers, the folks
working behind the counter at your favorite retail shop, and
we get to honor a few of those folks, which
is always a lot of fun and those are always
a surprise.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
The next is the Urban.

Speaker 13 (32:36):
Artist Award, so that's not just visual art, but also entertainers,
musical entertainers, photographers. It runs a gamut and those are
the people who devote their talent to making our districts stronger.
The next is the Urban Service Award, and that's our
Volunteer of the Year award, which is always just a
really sometimes emotional award that we give out because these

(32:57):
are the folks who are dedicating so much of their
own time, usually at no cost to anybody else. They
do it out of the goodness of their heart, and
so we want to recognize those folks who who not
only help our organization, but other other nonprofits and other
groups in the valley. Our Urban Leadership Award is our
civic leader that we honor every year. This year's recipient

(33:19):
is really special. We're really excited about it. And then
of course, as I mentioned, Mayor Gooban will be announcing
who the Urban Night of the Year is and that's
the person who sort of encompasses all of the award
categories if you will. So, yeah, this at this event's
going nine years strong again, this is definitely the biggest
year he had. We are sold out. The event itself

(33:39):
in person has been sold out now for a couple
of weeks and at the Woman's Club yes tomorrow night
Wednesday at six o'clock. But no worries though it is
sold out, but we are through a partnership through WCCHS
Eyewitness News, we are going to be live streaming them
to their Facebook page and to our Facebook page. So
if you tune in tomorrow to the WCCHS Eyewitness News
Facebook page at six o'clock. You'll be able to watch

(34:02):
the awards live in their entirety. Uh and of course
be archived after that to watch later. But so yeah,
we're giving everybody a chance to watch it, even if
you can't be there in person.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
And I have said before Rick, and you know this,
we're talking about Cabin and Charleston Urban Works. I mean,
Charleston has got such a great network of people that
come out to do these things, to pull these things up.
And it doesn't matter what it is you're in the
holiday season. It could be you know, things like the
big events that you think about, like the things that

(34:32):
you guys put on or regatta or or what you know,
the the Pro Road Championships or anything. But it's a
lot of smaller things that maybe don't get the headline
since you've got a great network of people that just
step up and say, hey, I'm gonna be there.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
I mean I did.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
I did an event Saturday at at Capital Market and
you have volunteers for that. It was a fundraiser the
biscuits and gravy goal. Okay, but we had a lot
of people that are just there just just to help.
And I say that because anytime there's something going on
in Charleston and really the Kanaal Valley, you get that
great network of people that all come together and kind
of help out.

Speaker 13 (35:07):
And I can tell you in my experience in this role,
and it's different capacities over the past eighteen years, those
folks aren't doing it to be seen or to say
they were there. They're doing it out of the goodness
other heart. They're doing it because they know the importance
of service. And you know, I've worked with so many
volunteers over the years, and I've count myself really lucky
to have worked with so many volunteers over the years,
and it's taught me so much.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
You know, I get paid to do this work.

Speaker 13 (35:29):
I'm the executive director, I'm staff right, and of course
I have my own passions as it relates to urban
economic community development and just being involved in your community
of certainly, but working with so many of those folks
who just do it out of the goodness of their heart.
They get up on a Saturday morning at seven o'clock
and go help unload trucks and you know, set up
registration tents and you know poor Beer for instance, on

(35:50):
our events. I mean the list goes on. You know,
working with all those folks is not only inspiring, but
it's taught me a lot, you know, in my career
over the past eighteen years. So you know again this
this is just one way through our Urbanight Awards that
we that we showcase that and we say thank you.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
So we're really excited about it. Talking to a Cavnack
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of the advertising says that the event is going to

(36:26):
be mcd by Woody Woods from The Beat and Logan
Scott for BE one hundred. Logan sadly had a death
in his family, so I've been pressed into duty tomorrow night,
so one of our announcers, you're stuck with me tomorrow's
come full.

Speaker 13 (36:36):
Circle after ten years of friendship day. You're finally even
and I are finally both going to be on microphones
at the same event. But yeah, no, yeah, I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
This is something. This is the new addition to our
urbanight of Wars.

Speaker 13 (36:46):
I'm glad you mentioned that we this is the one
of the first We did this one other time, but
this is the first time we've had one of our
personalities doing this. Where uh think of like the Oscars.
Whenever you're the winner's name is announced from stage, music
starts playing immediately. We have announcers sort of give like
a short bio about that winner and sort of like
how they how they started their business or you know,
how they came to Charleston, whatever the case is. And
so you're going to learn something about each of these

(37:08):
winners from you and Woody as they're walking to stage
to get their awards, which I think is gonna add.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Something really kind of cool to it. Now you are
feeding me right right, Oh yeah, yes, okay, sure, because.

Speaker 13 (37:19):
I'm surprised that wasn't your first quh But no, who's that?
I'm sorry, Kel's tavern business City is catering.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, I actually had a chance to uh run in
there when we were doing the October West. Yeah, because
we were down there and we had a little bit
of time. But myself and an animal, I mean, I
may not be allowed back in because I had I
was with Animal and Steve, Steve Animal and Shockley, So
I may not be allowed back in.

Speaker 13 (37:45):
Oh, we already had that conversation earlier. Yeah, I'll be
surprised if they'll let you back in. But no, Yeah,
they're catering. We have an open bar of course. Uh
and in full catering there. So you'll you'll, you're you
your belly should be full by the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Well, and I tell you, look, it is a uh,
it's a testament. I think that that organizations like yours
want to recognize people. And again, these these categories and
things that you have, these are not people that are
asking for recognition. No, you know, I mean many times,
I don't know how it's been in the past, but
I would imagine over the last few years you've been
doing this, somebody somebody probably.

Speaker 13 (38:19):
Said, really me, oh yeah, we've had It's always fun
to watch their surprise, like their face when they when
they realize they've been that they've been honored and there
of course they're always surprised. But some people have said,
like what why, Like I remember not to not to
throw name out there, but I know she won't mine.
But Councilwoman Mary Jean Davis, she had gotten one of
our Urban Leadership awards the very first year we did this,

(38:40):
and she was.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
She was the only one in the room who was shocked.

Speaker 13 (38:42):
Everybody else assumed it was her because she embodies everything
that when do you think of the word leadership? But
she herself was like, really me, this could have went
to someone else. Of course Mary Jean says that, but yeah,
it runs a gamut with the responses. But no matter what,
it's a it's a it's a happy I'll say that.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Well, while we have you here, I would be remiss
if I didn't bring up once you get this behind you,
this is your big thing right now. But once you
get this behind you, we're full on into the holiday season.
And if you look outside, you know what started yesterday
morning and continues with the snow on the ground, It's
gonna be all gone by the end of the week.
But that may put some people in a bit of
a Christmas spirit. I know, Charleston Urban Works, you go

(39:22):
above and beyond all year long, but especially during the
holiday season, there'll be a lot of exciting things going on.

Speaker 13 (39:27):
Yes, So I mean we haven't done anything like directly
holiday related for for a while because there's such a
strong presence with Hala Jolly Brothley and the Downtown Charleston
Association does such an incredible job with that, and it
draws so many people to downtown and it's just such
an incredible event in time of year.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
We do want to make sure that we're spending some
time focusing on small Business Saturday. That's what I want.
That's kind of what I was getting, and that's what
kind of what I was getting a not necessarily activities,
but aiding these businesses, especially like on the Saturday after
Thanksgiving and Small Business Saturday.

Speaker 13 (39:59):
Yeah, and we'll be making in a couple announcements about
that throughout the evening during the Urban Out of Worse
tomorrow night. Actually about some of our initiatives as it
relates to our shop local programs, mainly our Passport debit
card program, which we're going to be pushing out there
more than ever here in the next in the coming months,
and a lot of our promotion, especially with small business Surday,
will be centered around, you know, encouraging people to get

(40:20):
their passport debit card from Element Federal Credit Union so
they can start, you know, getting the two percent cash
back benefits that they get it.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
You've done this last couple of years, but explain how
it works.

Speaker 13 (40:29):
Yeah, it's actually pretty simple. You've become a member of
Elepment Federal Credit Union. You choose to get the passport
debit card that Charleston Urban Works Passport card, our logos
on it, on your actual debit card anytime you swipe
that card at any of our district businesses. And keep
in mind, we've just expanded into Kanas City and by
the beginning of the calendar year, we will have added
all of the Kanas City businesses to this list. Anytime
you swipe your card at any of those businesses East End,

(40:50):
west Side, we've included Downtown as well and now Kanas
City soon, you automatically get two percent cash back when
ever you purchase, which is typically something you just see
on a credit card, right, but this is a pretty
unique programming that it's.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
A debit card.

Speaker 13 (41:02):
All you have to have as an account with Element,
I've become a member of theirs, get that debit card,
and you immediately start getting those benefits and experiencing that savings.
This is a really easy and effective way to encourage
folks to make the decision to shop local versus maybe
making the decision to go to a box store. Right,
and so we're going to be a big marketing campaign

(41:23):
surrounding that. We're gonna be pushing that really heavily over
the next few months. You'll hear more about it at
the early night awards tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
And of course we'll have you on the air, you know,
definitely want to have you on maybe before Small Business Saturday. Yeah,
I'm to come in and talk about all right. So,
since the event tomorrow night at the Woman's Club is
sold out, give us the information where people can watch
online again, yes, in the palm of your hand.

Speaker 13 (41:40):
If you go to the WHS Eyewitness News Facebook page,
it'll be shared to the Charleston Urban Works Facebook page
as well. You can start watching the awards live right
at six o'clock streaming from the Woman's Club. So please
join us online if you're not able to make it
to the love of it. If you already haven't gotten
your RSVP, which again we are sold out, so please

(42:01):
join us online tomorrow starting at six o'clock.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
All right, Rick Cavnt, Charleston Erber, Work's always a pleasure,
my friend, always Dave. I appreciate you, and we'll see
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the community. Now back to the opening, Jeff Jenkins has
a story posted about at wv metronews dot com. Senators
Shelley Moore, Capito and Jim Justice, of course, both voted
for ending it, and both put out statements that are
contained as part of Jeff's stories. So now I think

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we sit back and wait. I know the talk Line
boys were efforting to get Senator Justice on today. I
do know for a fact that Senator Capito will be
on the show on talk Line tomorrow at ten oh six,
so it'll be interesting to get their take on it.
I don't imagine that to take either one of them
is going to be very different than what we've heard
in the past. But both did this. Of course, there

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had to be some crossover, if you will, from from
some Democrats. Eight I think it was the crossover to
support it. So that's where it is right now.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
And again my.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Editorial comment here, my only thing has been all along
and I hate that all these people or suffered because
of the government shut down, whether it's folks on snap
benefits or whether it was the military or federal workers
or so on and so forth. But you've heard me
say it before. We've we've got to get serious about

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this national debt. And the only difference in my mind
between the Republicans and the Democrats right now is that
the Democrats want to add more national debt, a couple
of trillion more than what the Republicans do. So you're
not going to hear me beating the drum for the
Republican Party on that because they gop I'm talking to
you have got to get serious about this national debt.

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And the only difference between the two parties right now
again editorial comment, in my opinion, is the amount of
money that they want to add to the federal debt
and the number of trillions. It's a couple of more
trillion dollars the Democrats want to add. But you know,
the Republicans are just are just behind them. Brad Macklhenny
the story posted on the website wv metro News dot com.

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Judge Richard lindsay Here in Kanawha County has denied a
preliminary injunction and dismissed the case as to whether the
governor has the authority to deploy the National Guard from
West Virginia to go serve on the streets of the
nation's capital. Well, apparently, according to Judge Lindsay, he does
have that authority. Now, there was lawsuits, you know, Auby

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Sparks and the ACLU was part of this lawsuit and
went before Judge Richard Lindsay yesterday. And according to Judge
Lindsey and his interpretation of the law, which is what
matters brand and that's he the governor has every right
to do that. And so the story's posted about wv
metro news dot com. I mean it could be refiled

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from one to understand at a later point, but that
is where it is right now. If you were out
traveling last night, I know I left the station a
little bit earlier that I normally do yesterday, around three
thirty or so, a little difficult in my commute back
to not because the roads were slick, but just because
it was near wide out conditions and you just couldn't
see anything, and then it got progressively worse as the

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night went on. I left my house this morning a
little bit earlier. I left a little bit, uh, you know,
before seven or so this morning. And it was a
little slow going coming in from Putnam County, but not
nearly as bad I said this earlier. The roads I
think were a lot better six or seven am this
morning than what they were at seven pm last night.

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In our state, sixty four for the most part was fine.
That off ramps getting off Virginia Street was a little slick. However,
I will say we had reports from one of our
own here that the area and out on the Childress
Road was very, very slick. And talked to a family
member of mine who lives in the hometown area of
Putnam County, and they got about six inches of snow

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over there, and he reported via my wife this morning
that the third four connecting you know, let's think connecting
Hurricane or Tayese Valley area to Winfield was extremely slicky
even this morning, and that there were cars and ditches
and so on and so forth. That wasn't my that
wasn't what I encountered this morning coming in. But it

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is going to get a lot better. Just before the show,
I actually walked out. Look, we got sunshine out there
right now. This is one of those freak things that
normally doesn't happen, you know, in November. But it's the
weather and what you're gonna do about the weather. Everybody
talks about it, as you also saying, goes, but nobody
does anything about it. It is gonna get much much
better though, as we go on. I mean, we're gonna
be approaching seventy by the end of the week, but

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we're just getting It's still false so we're just getting
into the wintertime season, gonna be more snow and so
on and so forth. So you know, ain't much you
can you can do about it. I want to close
with this. Today is Veterans Day, and longtime listeners to
this show, and I've been doing this show for five
years now, we'll know that I have a very very

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special place in my hard for veterans. My dad was
he passed away in twenty fourteen of complications from agent
Orange that he contracted in Vietnam. And you know, for
many folks, it's a day off today. Some offices are closed,
schools are closed, so on and so forth. But just

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remember why it is that we are allowed. I'm allowed
to get on this radio to talk like I do
and give opinions and so on and so forth, and
other folks on this. We're allowed to do this because
of the service that our veterans have given to this country.

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Many of them, many of them died for this country.
As you well know, West Virginia lost more people for
capita than any other state in the Union. So just
as you go about your day to day, and maybe
you know, I know, there's a big, big veterans parade
in Charleston starts at eleven o'clock this morning. Our sister
station ninety six one KS Rob real morning guy over there,

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who is a veteran himself, is going to be taking
part in that parade. Just remember why it is that
we do the things we do, and while we're allowed
to do the things we do, and it's because of
our veterans. Thank you so much. All Right, gotta go.
Wilson and Meadows coming off a talk line at ten
oh six. I'll be back later today with Metro News,
midday with thirteen News, and Tonight Live anchor Manded Baron
will see you then till then, have fun, Love somebody