Talk of the Town August 1, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
This is the Talk of the Town from Morgantown to Klucksburg.
If it's happening, we're talking about it. Call the show
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two five five. Now Here is your host for the
Talk of the Town, Mike Nolting.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, good Friday morning. It is nine oh six overcast
and sixty three degrees in the University City, and welcome
to the program. This is Talk of the Town where
it's all about you, your family and the community at large.
I'm Mike Nolting. You'll find me out on x as
your news guy. Now, we do have a text line

(00:44):
for your input that numbers three oh four Talk three
oh four. Sophia Wasik is our producer today and you'll
be able to reach her at eight hundred seven six
five eight two five five. That's eight hundred seven six
five eight two. That's right, it is Friday. Of course,

(01:05):
that round of applause is maybe not just for successfully
navigating the end of a very busy week, but also
maybe clapping for the change in the weather pattern that
certainly is very good to see. Metro Newsaki Weather says
today partly Sunday in a high of seventy six, and

(01:26):
that's basically what you're going to see through the weekend.
So we'll leave that there, get to some headlines before
we speak with Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumbell at nine fifteen.
Then at nine thirty we've got doctor Brian Huggins from
the mont County Health Department and he's going to give
us the very latest on the rabies case that we're

(01:46):
going to highlight here in just a moment. Then at
nine forty we've got Victoria Nottingham from the mont Preston
County United Way. They've got their last blast event coming
up this weekend. We're going to get some details about that.
Mont County Health Department officials have confirmed a raccoon caught
near the Meadow Ponds golf Course off Route says in

(02:10):
Root seven has tested positive for rabies. We do know
that there is possibly at least one person who came
into contact with that raccoon. We'll get some details from
doctor Huggins about how maybe that interaction occurred and what
you can do to avoid that in the future, and

(02:32):
what's next. Because we're about three week shy of the
scheduled bait season. Where we can get that vaccine out
to animals. So we've got a lot of questions for
doctor Huggins, and I'm sure he'll have a lot of
answers as well. Amon County Delegate David McCormick says the
mid Atlantic Resiliency Link ought to be scrapped with it

(02:54):
or to replace it, ought to be a renewed statewide
effort to draw data centers here. We should be promoting
the Power Generation and Consumption Act legislation. That legislation was
passed this year and it encourages data centers to locate
in the Mountain state by allowing companies to create their
own energy grids while bypassing some local regulations. We take

(03:19):
a look at the situation that we're dealing with now,
and what we find is the Virginia law passed in
twenty twenty actually put their coal fired plants out of business.
David McCormick is exactly right. He says, they want to
just use our rights of ways in order to enhance
their economic development. Well, we now have the framework and

(03:43):
we need to there's a few words for that, but
we need to engage our activity and work on drawing
those data centers Well, acting on a tipmont County Sheriff's
deputies arrested Tiffany Doakes Klauser from Berkeley County and can
connection with a kidnapping of a child of Klausser was
nabbed at the truck stop off I seventy nine and

(04:05):
Goshen Road. She's being held without bail and thanks to
the efforts of CPS workers and deputies, that child is
now safe with family and in Preston County, thirty five
year old Shane Sager of Tera Alta. He's been accused
of strangulation and domestic battery in connection with an attack

(04:26):
on his mother, and now police have also added charges
of battery on an officer and obstructing during the response
to that incident. State Police. Sager is cooling off at
the Tigert Valley Regional Jail on a two hundred thousand
dollars bond. His mother was treated at mon Health Preston
Memorial Hospital for multiple bruises, markings on her face and

(04:49):
bruises on her arm and hand, as well as multiple
cuts inside her mouth and her lips. Right now, it's
cloudy sixty three degrees in the University City when we
come back. We're going to welcome Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumpel
to the program and we're going to lay out a
completely different format that will yes include you the listener,

(05:15):
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Speaker 1 (05:44):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
Talk of the Town.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, good Friday morning. It is a nine to fifteen
getting word of a serious Well, it's a crash that
is causing some backups near the Pierpont exit and I
sixty eight. Also, the interstate system continues to recover from
a multiple vehicle accident reported on I seventy nine southbound

(06:16):
in the Whitehall area. So we've got some problems there
over at the Pierpont exit off of I sixty eight
as well. So hey, be careful, it's going to be
a great day. You don't want to get in the wreck.
We've got Danielle Trumbell, Morgantown Mayor, in the studio with
us Danielle, good morning. How are you?

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Good morning? What a way to lead in that's some
depressing news. Well, hopefully everyone's okay there exactly.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
That's that's certainly what we hope. Well, Danielle, let's see,
you've been mayor for about a month now. Reflect on
your inaugural few weeks.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
The mayor gets so many emails, Mike, That's what I've
been at when people ask how it's going on, like
so many emails else But I think I've been navigating
and learning the ropes, and I'm pretty sure I've been
everywhere that I was expected to be so so I
think we're doing well. I'm hopefully trying to make a
little change here and there and peel back some layers

(07:14):
of city government that I didn't even know existed.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Well, I tell you, you've actually set a mouthful there,
and you know at this point you've been able to
settle into the job while also settling into a new administration.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Absolutely. Jamie Miller and I we seem to have a
great working relationship. She is always gracious and makes time
when I have things that I would like to talk
to her about, and she's invited me into some meetings
that she's had so that we can ensure that we're
on the same page and we're getting the same information,
and oh boy, is that a breath of fresh air.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, you know, one of the things that I mentioned
to you, and I also mentioned to reporter Joe Nelson,
was on Tuesday night. I talked to Joe. I think
it was maybe about eight forty five, nine o'clock, and
he and I were going through the Committee of the
whole meeting and we had that calculated at forty six minutes. Now,

(08:13):
that is not typical for Morgantown City Council, So what's
going on.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I wouldn't I wouldn't expect that to be the norm
moving forward either. That was an unusually short meeting. We
are working to try to get the length of our
meetings under control. We are trying to use more about
the consent agenda, where everyone is given the information that
they need ahead of time, and that has made public

(08:40):
on our website, so council can just vote on several
of those routine items in one swoop, if you will.
The City manager has done a great job getting out
an executive summary of some of the agenda items, so
there do seem to be less questions during meetings, maybe
a little less back and forth.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
So that executive summary that Jamie is able to put
together that allows you to use the consent agenda to
its maximum ability.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Absolutely, it gives us the opportunity to see what every
agenda item is about, get a rundown of it. And
as I said, that has made public as well, so
the public gets the same information that we get on
the city's website when that packet is posted. And I've
encouraged counsel people, if you have questions, let's ask those

(09:31):
ahead of time, or at least allow staff to be
prepared with what some of your questions may be. If
several people have the same question, let's maybe pull that
off of the consent agenda and talk about it. Because
if multiple people on council have the same question, probably
some of the public will as well. But some of
those more routine items, let's brush through them.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
I'm glad that you address that, because that was my
next question was just because it's a consent agenda doesn't
mean that everybody, and there could be exceptions.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Absolutely, and at the meeting, any council person has the
ability to say this one item on the consent agenda,
I would like to discuss it. We pull it off
the consent agenda, no questions asked, and we put it
into our regular business.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Mayor Danielle Trumpell from the City of Morgantown is with
us this morning, and let's talk about that budget shortfall
if we could. How concerned are you about that?

Speaker 3 (10:27):
I lose sleep over budgets, even when things look like
they're going well.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Mike.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
The budget is something that I take very seriously. I
always have, from my early days on Bopark when there
was no kind of contingency up through now. When they
came to us and said I think there was a miscalculation,
my first question was how did that happen? And I
think that Director Ferguson did did an okay job of

(10:54):
explaining that during the council meeting recently. But that is
definitely something we are looking at closely, and I agree
with Counselor Downs we kind of had to make some
steps to figure out if that money is needed, where
are the places that we will pull it from. But
we also do need to see where some cuts can
be made and some savings can be had so that

(11:16):
maybe we don't have to dip into that fiscal conservancy
fund or fiscal stabilization fund.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Sorry, right right. You know. One of the things that
I thought about, Daniel, was the fact that is our
ability to be able to match grants hampered in any way.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Do you think I think that all of the grants
that we are anticipating, we do have that money set aside.
I am certainly a fan of leveraging money that we
have to multiply it into more money. So my anticipation
would be anybody that says, here's this grant, but you
have a small match, we will scrape it together.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Well, and I you know, I think that that was
one of the big lessons learned during the pandemic, was,
you know, marshaling your resources and really stacking them absolutely.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
And with a lot of the cuts that are happening
at a federal level. A few weeks ago, the city
manager and assistant city manager and councilor Sealine and I
met with the County Commission and one of the things
I said to them was, with all of these cuts happening,
we really have to figure out a good way to
pool our resources to really maximize those funds for our community.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Morgantown Mayor Daniel Trumble is with us. Now, Danielle, let's
talk about maybe substance abuse, Hazel's House of Hope, the
downtown area kind of all in one topic. So what
maybe will people see over the summer in terms of
those issues.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
We're working hard on those and this week actually we
have leaders from around the state who are coming to
Morgantown with the West Virginia Municipal League conference, and one
of the workshops that we were asked to hold is
a mobile tour that will visit Hazel's House of Hope.
So this is still something that's very interesting to people

(13:11):
from around the state. I have been talking to Jamie
closely making sure that even with the budgeting issues that
we may have, we cannot give up that overtime for
our police officers, for our Safe Streets Unit. We need
that downtown beat making sure that people have eyes and
ears on the street and make visitors feel safe. We

(13:32):
have a lot of events coming up, you know. Tonight's
first Friday for the Arts and the summer concert series.
Next weekend is Arts Walk. When people are invited into
our downtown, we want them to feel safe absolutely.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Now, one of the other things you mentioned the Municipal
League Conference. What does it mean for the city and
the mayor to be able to welcome your peers from
across the state to your town.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
The Municipal League Conference was the first event that I
attended when I was a newly elected council person, and
I got in there and I was so intimidated. Oh
my gosh, there were all of these people from around
the state. But they don't joke when they say it's
really like a family and they come together, we share ideas,

(14:20):
we learn from other communities. And having those people here
in Morgantown to see what's going well in Morgantown and
sharing our successes but also some of the struggles that
we're having, so that they can share with us the
way that they're dealing with some of the same issues
that they experience. It's really invaluable. I am so excited

(14:42):
for all of my friends and colleagues from around the
state to visit us next week.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Now, let's talk a little bit about the paving program
for twenty twenty five. What can you tell us about that.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
We are a little behind schedule because the city recently
had the study redone on the condition of roads. They
went through, looked at the last time each road was touched,
you know, repaved or anything like that. They looked at
the state of the roads, they looked at any utilities
or anything that are under the roads, and we're really

(15:13):
trying to form a data driven approach. So we are
still about to kick off our paving season for this year.
That should be going out to bid any day. We're
anticipating between one and one and a half million dollars
to pave about six and a half miles of city streets,
so hopefully those bids come in great and we can

(15:35):
get all of those done. We've taken an approach where
we're trying to do some groups of streets in different
neighborhoods to really minimize the mobilization costs and save some
funds that way, So hopefully that works out well. It
gets to be a little bit of a pain for
parking in neighborhoods for those couple of days when those
streets are being done, but for the long term benefit,

(15:55):
I think it's really great.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
And you know, not to get too far off into
the weeds, but when you start moving a paving train
round a paver and a roller and you know, a
backo in a broom. That does get expensive.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
It's a lot of equipment and a lot of staff.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Certainly, Yeah, definitely. Okay, now one of the things, I
just lost my train of thought, but I'm just going
to go with it here.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, well, back into the station.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. So one of
the things about the paving program that you brought up
during that meeting that I thought was worth mentioning to
the public is the coordination that you go through with
MUB and other organizations. So we don't because you know,
five years ago it was nothing that a newly paved
street would be cut open to fix a valve or

(16:39):
something like that. But you know, what are you doing
now now?

Speaker 3 (16:43):
When we come up with our we generally have a
five year paving plan, we send those streets that we
anticipate are going to be included in those years. We
send those to all of the utilities, MUB, the gas company,
anyone who has any kind of underground infrastructure, and we say,
do you have any plans for this area? Is this

(17:06):
a thing that you think is going to need to
be updated? So if MUB has a sewer line that
is aging and is going to need to be replaced.
We wait on them to do that now before we pave.
We've really improved the communication between the entities to maximize
No one wants a freshly paved street with a giant
rut down the middle with a patch, you know the

(17:28):
next year. It was infuriating to me for years in Morgantown.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
You know, it makes me want to remind the audience
about all the questions that were brought up when we
added a member of Morgantown City Council to the board
of the Morgantown Utility Board. But I think this kind
of highlights one of the reasons that that is important,
because you know that person who is now marked downs

(17:53):
is there on those meetings to say, oh, hey, you've
got our list right, and to keep it in front
of Mike McNulty and his staff.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Absolutely, I think the city and MUB. I've heard great
things from MOB board members and MUB staff. Everyone feels
that the communication has really improved in our working relationship
is on a much better footing.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
I think. So Hazel's House of Hope, now I know
you're active with that organization, What can you tell us
about them and the possibility Mylne push gar Health Right.
They'll be up there in a matter of months.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Possibly absolutely, and the people the agencies at H three
look forward to establishing a nice working relationship with Health
Right as well. I think it makes sense to have
things there relatively on the same campus, not exactly, it's adjacent,
not on campus, but I think having all of those

(18:49):
services available in one place will be a great thing.
We're currently working with Catholic Charities to maybe expand Grace
Shelter into the the old Hopehill Sobering Center space, and
MCR is currently working with Catholic Charities as well to
write a grant to renovate some additional space inside of

(19:12):
the building for some longer term transitional housing. So there's
a lot in motion up there and we're working along.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Okay, perfect now, Danielle, I'd like to invite you back.
Maybe once a week. We could have this conversation, open
it up to the public and see what happens.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Absolutely, that's something that I've looked forward to for a
long time. I really want to make city government more
transparent and accessible, and I think that a weekly segment
would be a great way to do that. Happy to
always take questions.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Okay, that's exactly what we're going to do right now.
And thank you very much, Danielle. Really do appreciate your time,
and I hope you have a great weekend. Thank you absolutely.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
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Speaker 2 (20:16):
Good Friday morning, and welcome back to the program. We've
got Montagelia County Health Officer doctor Brian Huggins with us
this morning. And doctor Huggins, good morning, and welcome to
the program.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Good morning, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well, the Metal Ponds golf Course, I guess is ground
zero for this case of rabies that we're going to
be talking about over the next few minutes.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yep, exactly, yep.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
So give us the latest stuff.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
So we got alerted yesterday that there's a raccoon that
was sent off for sample out in the New Hill area,
which is right where also where the new Metal Pond's
residential complex, you know, the big development that they're building
out there right now. That came back positive for rabies.

(21:01):
And so we really want everyone in that community to
understand that when you have one animal with rabies in
the area, it is possible that it is isolated to
that one animal, but any other mammal in the area
that that came in contact with has the potential to
develop rabies with time. And the difficult part of that
is rabies can take time to develops.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
It can be very slow.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Disease that it's symptoms for even in people. When we
have seen people that develop rabies, it could be as
early as two days after exposure. It could be as
long as two years. It can in a bite from
an animal. It can live and it travels up the
nerve and we can do blood tests on people and

(21:47):
it will be negative, but then it'll get to the
brain and if it gets to the brain and people
it's one hundred percent fatal.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
I think one of the problematic portions of this particular
issue is the fact that we're three weeks away from
the vaccine bait period. Yeah, what kind of challenges does
that present?

Speaker 4 (22:05):
I know.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
So, and for people that aren't familiar with that, the
vaccine baits are that the Department Natural Resource, Department of
bag they will go out and they will actually drop
by helicopter and they will drop these little bait things
which every year we talk about that in the paper
and we show people pictures of it because if you
see it, leave it there, it's not trash. It's basically
a food source that is baited with Rabe's vaccine and

(22:28):
hopefully that stops the spread in the animals. Unfortunately, they
haven't done that yet this year, and we don't know.
We're checking with them right now. We're not sure if
this area was a place that they had intended to
do that, but we are going to try to see
if we can get some of that bait put out
in that area. So on one hand, while there's a

(22:49):
disadvantage that hasn't happened yet, the advantage is is that
maybe we can target find a way to target that area.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
We're looking into that.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Okay, got a question from a listener, Doctor Hugginson. That
listener would like to know if their chickens are in
danger of getting rabies from an infected animal.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
And chickens are not in endanger. It's a mammals only disease,
but all mammals, including people, can get the disease.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Okay, Now let's talk a little bit about raccoons.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
My raccoons, Well, raccoons are because they tend to eat
just about anything they can get their hands on. They
are the ones that we are that you see it
a lot in It's actually not the most common animal
that you see rabies, and you'll actually see it more

(23:39):
in sometimes bats, foxes, but raccoons just happen to be
that the animal that they're the most scavenger like and
they're going to be out and about and finding things
and so yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
And I think maybe another unfortunate circumstances, they are also
maybe the appear to be the cute, cuddly things that
maybe TV tells us they are.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
Right, and I think that's why we get them sent
off the most. So, you know, how do we know
there's rabies in an animal? Unfortunately, it's a lot of
times from a bite and then someone comes out euthanizes
the animal and we send it off because if there's
a bite, we need to know immediately. Other times it's
there in your community and you identify that it's acting weird,

(24:25):
and that's usually the first sign of an animal with rabies.
Is one big tip off is if it's a nocturnal
animal like a raccoon and it's out during the day,
that's weird behavior.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
They shouldn't be out during the day.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
Sometimes it's because of there are rare circumbercompences where it's
a mother raccoon looking for food for the babies and
they just have to be out during the day because
they haven't found food in a while. But most of
the time, you know, you'll see that with erratic behavior.
And so since raccoons tend to be in our housing developments,
you don't see a lot of foxes just running around, right.

(25:01):
You see raccoons all the time, right, And that's where
why I think so many of them is where we
find it is because they interact with people so much,
and unfortunately people you've seen that raccoon that's cuddly at
the zoo, or you've seen the one that they have
as an ambassador at a nature center that they've raised,
and they know that it's friendly. So a lot of

(25:22):
people and then they see the YouTube videos of I
raised this raccoon from scratch, right, and you go and
you pick it up. Wild animals do not like to
be picked up. They do not like to be picked up.
They do not want you picking them up. They are
going to bite you. Do not pick up.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Doctor Brian Huggins is with a Samonighilly County Health officer.
We're talking about the confirmed rabies case here in the county.
So what we have is a raccoon confirmed with rabies
and human confirmed with rabies.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
So at this point no, no, no, no human confirmed
with rabies. There was a human bite, but and they've
been advised to get the vaccine, but there's no human
case of rabies.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Okay, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
So where I was headed, there was about the vaccine.
What how does that work?

Speaker 5 (26:10):
So the vaccine, so if you get bit, you're going
to need to get the vaccine, and you're going to
get something called immunoglobulin first, which is going to trigger
your immune system to start a response, and then you
will end up getting four shots. They're not in the
stomach the way that the old school of like, oh
you're going to get five shots in the stomach. That
we don't do that anymore. It's just an intermuscular shot.

(26:33):
But you'll get one at day zero, day three, day seven,
and day fourteen. Now is there a pre exposure rabies vaccine?
And the answer to that is yes, the same vaccine.
You can give a two shot dose and it can
give you some immunity if you get bit within animal.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
With rabies, they're still going to recommend.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
That you get additional shots afterwards, but you can get it.
The issue in the United States is that that vaccine
is around four hundred and twenty five dollars a shot,
four hundred and fifty, you know, and and upwards depending
and then when you add in insurance and all of
the other things that go with it, it is a
very very expensive vaccine. It's very frustrating because I actually

(27:12):
just attended a travel medicine international travel medicine conference, and
you can get the rabies vaccine in Thailand for ten dollars.
You can get the rabies vaccine in England for one hundred.
Why is it four hundred and fifty dollars here as
it can be?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, good question. Yeah, that's a good question, doctor Huggins.
I guess right now, I think that people in that
particular area off of Root seven, they'd like to have
your advice on what you would do if you lived
in that development.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
So the spread of rabies is buy saliva or fluids
from the animal. If you haven't had contact with an animal,
it's not going to be airborne. You're not going to
get that in the air. The biggest thing is going
to be if you have pets and they're outside pets,
get them vaccined. Even if they're indoor pets if they
have a chance that they get out. Because cats, everybody says,

(28:04):
I have an indoor cat and then that cat gets
out once, right, it's really better just to have your
your animal vaccinated for and the vaccine their animals is
a lot cheaper than it is in people, and so
I would also one of the big recommendations is not
feeding wild animals, feral cats in particular in this area.

(28:25):
We know there are feral cats and raccoons also like
to eat cat food. So when you feed them, even
though it's best intentions, and I know people don't want
to see cats suffering, but when you invite that in,
not only can it possibly infect your animals if you
happen to have animals or the neighbor. Because if you're

(28:45):
a kindly neighbor and the person next to you has
outdoor cats, you're potentially exposing their cats and their animals
to the diseases that these wild cats carry. And it's
not just rabies, but it could be just feline leukemia.
There's a bunch of different things, you know, that can
spread within populations. None of it's good, So please please,

(29:08):
I know it's hard, but don't feed wild animals.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yes, okay, thank you now, doctor Huggins. If someone would
have a question or maybe they've seen an animal, what
do they do?

Speaker 5 (29:22):
Yeah, so they're going to want to call the health department.
So they're going to want to give us a call
the Environmental Health section, and let me get that number
for you. Our main number is fifty one hundred five
nine eight fifty one hundred, and they'd be able to
get through to that and then our direct line. I'll
find that for you here in just one second.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
And of course we're talking about the rabies case, and
no human has been confirmed with rabies. That person will
just undergo a precautionary vaccine course just in case, because
I think the testing period for that raccoon is just
about a month. They have to send I know this

(30:02):
sounds morbid, but they have to send the head down
to the lab and they have to run a test.
That does take quite a bit of time.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
It does, and sometimes depending on where they're at with
the state, we can get it back as quickly as
twenty four to forty eight hours, but we've had to
take ten days, and so if you do get bit,
we do not recommend waiting.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
So if you get bit.

Speaker 5 (30:26):
By an animal, that seems suspicious, and honestly, if you
get bit by a wild animal in general, it's probably
a good idea to consider getting the vaccine. And where
you're going to need to do that is right now,
we know that ers have that in stock. I don't
know that most urgent cares do because the MNU globulin
is very specific and it's difficult to keep. We don't

(30:47):
have it at the health department. And if you got bit,
you probably need wound care, right.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, right, absolutely, Okay, we'll get that number out doctor Huggins.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Perfect, you do need to Yep, it's five nine eight
five to one three one.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Okay, perfect, that's three h four five nine eight five
one three one. That'll get you into the action path
just in case you need it.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
Yeah, And one more thing I'd just like everyone to
know is about bats. We get calls all the time.
I had a bat in my house. Bats can carry
rabies and bat bites can be small enough that you
don't know that you've gotten bitten and so the recommendation,
at least CDC recommendation is that if you've had a
bat in your house, you probably need to get the

(31:36):
post exposure vaccine just simply because you may have been
bitten by the bat and not really know because they
just have little, tiny teeth and the chances of it
are extraordinarily remote. But it's still the recommendation just because.
And so what I'd like to tell people is, if
it seems like you're getting bats in your house, then
look for ways that the bats are getting in, because

(31:58):
it's far better because the things like, oh, it's just
but you really don't want those flying around in your house.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
So maybe after you get the vaccine and you look
for where they're getting in, maybe then you get a tennis.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
Racket, an electric tennis.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Right, hey, doctor Huggins, thank you very much for coming
in for having me. Absolutely when we come back, we're
going to talk about the last Blast event that the
mont Preston County United Way is putting on this weekend.
We're going to do that with Victoria Nottingham. It's coming
up next on a fourteen forty f M one oh
four point five w AJR.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Now back to the talk of the town.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Well good Friday morning. It is nine fifty in the
University City. Victoria Nottingham is the Family Resource Network Manager
with the mont Preston County United Way and this weekend
we're having the Last Blast. Hey, Victoria, good morning. How
are you today?

Speaker 6 (33:05):
Hey, good morning, I'm doing well.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Are you doing Hey, I'm doing good. Very glad to
have you on board with us. Now, Victoria, give us
a rundown of the event. First off, when and where?

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Yeah, So the Last Left is this weekend, August third,
from twelve to three at the Shack neighborhood House. So
that's five thirty seven Blue Horizon Drive just passed UTC.
It's going to be a really fun day. It's an
opportunity for families to explore some of the resources in
our community while enjoying some free activities. The Shack is

(33:37):
opening their pool all day. We're also going to have
an array of other activities being stand arts, stations, Zack
Rason Confession stands, we have some raffles and vendors. The
Morgantome Beauty College is coming to donate from time and
offer free haircuts. Were free book bags for all of
the kids that join Face painting. It's going to be
a really fun day.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Okay, does sound like a really fun day free swimming,
huh yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:03):
Yeah. The pool be open all day from twelve to three.
They got lifeguards for us, so it should be really fun.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Okay. Now, if anybody does have a question, you can
reach the United Way at three zero four two nine
six seven five two five, or you can check them
out online too at UNITEDWAYMPC dot org. You can go
to the events page and get all the details here.
It's coming up Sunday from twelve until three out at

(34:30):
the Shack. I'm sure you're expecting lots of folks now
that you've got snow cones, food, backpacks, and school supplies.

Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yeah. Yeah, we're really excited. We have a lot of
wonderful volunteers coming to help and make the Day of
fun event. It's really an event for the community, by
the community, and we're really grateful for everyone coming together.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Okay, that's great, And of course this is completely free,
and these completely free events that support the in our
community that need it wouldn't be possible without the donors
that make it all go.

Speaker 6 (35:07):
Yes, correct, you correct. Ciliare so incredibly gave us for
all the funds dot com from our community, so donating
to the United Way is really a way to make
sure that your dollars are going as far as they can.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay. Victoria Noddingham is the Family Resource Network Manager. Well, Victoria,
I hope you have a great weekend, a great event,
and we really do appreciate your time today.

Speaker 6 (35:33):
Hey you tu thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Absolutely, it's a pleasure and we'll do this again. Okay,
oh please please Okay, good deal, good deal. Victoria Nottingham
with the mont Preston County United Way