August 14, 2025 • 35 mins
Carrie Showalter, WVU Interim Dean of Students and VP of Student Experience with Shauna Johnson, Executive Director of Strategic Communications on Welcome Week and move-in for the fall semester.
Mon County Republican Executive Committee Chairman Dale Sparks on the upcoming Reagan Day Dinner in October.
Monongalia County Sheriff Todd Forbes with Wanted Wednesday
Mon County Republican Executive Committee Chairman Dale Sparks on the upcoming Reagan Day Dinner in October.
Monongalia County Sheriff Todd Forbes with Wanted Wednesday
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is the Talk of the Town from Morgantown to Klucksburg.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, welcome to Talk of the Town and good Wednesday morning,
overcast and seventy six degrees. Welcome to the program where
we highlight things important to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
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Line and would love to hear from you today. That
number three oh four Talk three oh four. Ethan Collins
is our producer today. That telephone number is eight hundred
seven six five eight two five five. Today we're going
to be speaking with some representatives from West Virginia University
because this afternoon at four o'clock, Welcome Week kicks off,
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and we're going to learn a little bit more about
Welcome Week and everything that's going to be happening to
the lead up of the start of classes for the
fall semester. At nine point thirty, going to be speaking
with the Monn County Republican Party we're going to learn
about their Lincoln Day dinner coming up in October. More
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details about that that'll be held to believe it is
October the sixteenth out at the Lakeview, but we'll get
more information about that later in the program. Let's take
a look at a couple of headlines. The state is
getting out of the long term care business. They're selling
state run facilities in a deal that could be as
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much as a decade old. They're selling these to the
Mars Development Group for sixty million dollars. Now they will
assume operations of the facilities and then they also promised
to build three to five new.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Two facilities as well.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Morgantown City Council's approved a contract with Mountaineer Infrastructure LLC
for the next phase of work at the Morgantown Municipal Airport.
Phase five came in at six point seven four million dollars.
It consists of grading and the placement of rock embankment. Now,
this is where we're beginning to get some work done
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both on the airport I'm sorry, the runway extension project
and the I sixty eight Commerce Park. Eleven were arrested
in a drug bust in Marion County. Warrants were served
at a home on Maryland Avenue early Tuesday morning. I
believe it was about one thirty. Police confiscated fentanyl, cocaine,
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meth and other drug paraphernalia. All the Brewers put to
the Pirates fourteen to nothing. Paul Skeens allowed four runs
on six hits in four innings. Skien's first loss since
lie the eleventh month. Let's see he allowed a total
of four runs in his last four starts. Well, coming
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up next we will spend some time with We've got
folks from West Virginia University.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Welcome week.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Get started at four o'clock this afternoon. We've got a
lot of questions about what is happening. We're going to
do that next on Top of the Town AM fourteen
forty FM oneh four point five WAJR.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Now back to the talk of the town.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
A good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It is nine fourteen in the University city of somewhat
important trial of note happening in Montengelia County this week.
To bring to your attention, if you remember, back in
septeb Member of twenty twenty three, we were in the
throes of academic transformation and some of the meetings. I
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happened to be up at the Creative Arts Center that morning,
and later that morning, the Morgantown Fire Department was dispatched
to the seven hundred block of Well Street where there
was a gas explosion. Four WVU students four young women
lived in that home on Well Street. In the aftermath
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of the investigation into what happened, a gentleman by the
name of John Bland was charged with involuntary manslaughter. He
was charged after the criminal investigation uncovered that Bland performed
the maintenance work at the residence without the proper certification.
They contend that led to the gas leak that caused
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the explosion. That explosion seriously injured Carly Grocer. She was
treated at the West penn Hospital in Pittsburgh from September.
The incident happened September sixth. She then passed away in
January of twenty twenty four at the age of twenty.
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That trial is going on in the Montingelia County Justice
Center this week. We hope to have an update for
you coming up later, possibly today or in tomorrow now.
Grozer was a native of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was a
junior studying Communications Studies with a minor and marketing. She
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had worked for the Prospect and Price Creative Group in
the WVU Students media run marketing agency. She was also
a member of the WVU Women's Lacrosse Club. That trial
going on at the Montingelia County Justice Center this week,
and we'll be sure and bring that issue some updates
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and bring those to you as soon as we can.
Morgantown City Council on Tuesday. Some issues, some resolutions, and
you know, let's keep in mind that resolutions are much
different than ordinances, really aren't necessarily carrying a lot of weight,
just kind of directing what the opinions of that particular
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council might be. However, nevertheless, a couple of resolutions made
it into the agenda that weren't necessarily a part of
the Committee of the Whole. The reason that the process
works like that is that the issues are brought up,
they're able to have open debate. As we learned with
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the first meeting of this particular city Council, it was
delayed because they couldn't meet the requirements of the Open
Meetings Act. That Committee of the Whole is supposed to
be a platform for the councilors to be able to
propose issues or ideas discussions and then they can vote
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as to whether or not those items make it to
the regular agenda. Then that gives the public a little
bit of notice, so they know.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
A couple of the items that got brought up that
were maybe added to the agenda were one a resolution
asking the legislature to support their efforts in gaining increased
funding for disabled coal miners, and we'll get back to that.
The second issue was a resolution to oppose the sighting
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and installation of the mid Atlantic Resiliency Link. Now, you
know both of those issues, really, I don't think you
could find a lot of room for anybody in the
community to say, you know, we're against disabled coal miners
getting more money, or we're against you know, maybe our
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county getting torn up by an outside entity.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But one of the.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
One of the things that was brought up was the
fact that maybe Montgelia County commissions asking other municipalities to
join them in this fight. And that's not a completely
untrue statement, because certainly Shan Sikora, who makes it a
habit to speak very matter of factly, did ask for
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municipalities to join them in their fight and band together
against this project. But I think the context of those
comments were more in the range of Hampshire Mineral and
Jefferson Counties and Preston at Preston into that list as well. Please,
I believe his comments were more geared towards that than
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they were maybe Granville, Stars City or Morgantown, because, as
Shawn brought up during that meeting, what he wanted to
do was to be able to band together with them
in maybe some sort of a legal relationship that would
get them hooked to the case and the Public Service Commission,
so then they would be they would be eligible or
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they would be on the list to get regular updates
about that project, as well as the other counties affected.
Now getting back to the agenda and the new city
council that's on board, now, this was brought to my attention,
oh long time ago. Ah, when I say a long
time ago, not really a long time ago, maybe a
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couple of weeks ago, but that was there was an
event that happened before this council was sworn in where
Mayor Trumpell, Deputy Mayor Butcher, Councilman Downs, and Councilman Hollingshead
showed up at a run just certainly within their right.
They were all wearing shirts that said quick as Quorn
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raised a lot of questions, A lot of people brought
those questions to me. You know, I didn't think too
much about it, didn't say a whole lot, as a
matter of fact, didn't say anything about it until this
particular moment right now, because of this exchange during last
night's meeting that it lasts just about a minute in
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forty five seconds. But if you would indulge me, here
we go. And what we're talking about here is this
is a discussion about the mid Atlantic Resiliency link and
the possibility of maybe moving this tabling this and moving
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it on to the next meeting. Now, keep in mind
that the Council did approve both of these resolutions during
their regular meeting last night, so moving this to the
next agenda really isn't going to make a whole lot
of difference. But let's just let's listen in.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, it's one of the counselors that the that agreed
with these items being you know, brought forward in support
of the resolution and support of the resolutions. I'm happy
to see them on the agenda.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I do.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I do wonder though, if there doesn't need to be
such a sense of urgency and we're not maybe missing
an opportunity.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
To I think to raise awareness to be fine to
maybe Ryan, I would say, procedurally, would probably table the
I mean, I don't we can't really take a vote.
Can we request a second vote?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Is that okay?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Certainly you could just move this item to your next agenda.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Okay, so we could do a vote to move it
to the next agenda after we discuss each if you
would like to. And I think that's fair enough. To
raise awareness, I would say, like when these when these
items come up, I think everybody is open to feedback
about them, and.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
We are.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
We should ensure that we make these meetings places that
we discuss these things and have healthy and open to day,
not have it somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
But uh, yeah, I totally agree with that sentiment. I
don't think that historically that that that that there's been
enough of that in in in these meetings, and I
think we would all benefit our city would benefit by
it by it, So thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And that's the debate that followed the I guess the
interaction between counsel about how those resolutions actually got to
the agenda, And I think what Brian Butcher says there
is that we need to have these debates in that
room and not anywhere else. Kind of a curious situation.
Let's shift gears. We'll come back though. In studio we
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have the interim Dean of Students and the Associate Vice
President of Student Life, Carrie Showalter, and we also have
the one, the only, Shanna Johnson with us. Good morning, ladies,
how are you?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Good morning? Goode you hey, Mike, how.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Are you hey? I'm doing good. Good to see you.
How are you?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I'm doing great? Are you ready for the time of
year in Morgantown when things changed dramatically? We grow the
size of the city in the matter of days.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's what it is. And I was thinking about this
last night. It's not about the students. For me, it's
about the cars.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Build in some extra travel time.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Exactly exactly, well, you know, welcome. We get started at
four o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
It's sure it does. Yeah, yeah, we have our first
event this afternoon at four o'clock for our commuter students.
So we'll be at President Benson's house for just a
commuter kickoff event.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
All right, all right, I bet the commuter students are
going to be happy about that.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Oh it's exciting. We just started a few years ago
and we have great attendance. So yeah, it's a really
wonderful event for them.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Okay, Well, walk me through the rest of Welcome Week.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
So Welcome Week is really about making sure our new
and returning students get started on the right foot. So
what you'll see is a mix of fun social activities,
some service oriented activities, and also academic events to get
them set up. Because the first day of classes, if
you don't have it circled on your calendar like all
of us, is August twentieth, which is next Wednesday. So
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tomorrow is really when things get going because we'll have
our designated residence hall move in days Tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday,
starting at eight thirty in the morning until six pm.
Our residence Hall residence will be arriving in designated times slow,
so they have two hour blocks and that gives them
time to get in. When they arrive at their designated
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residence hall, volunteers are ready to greet them and their
Welcome Week shirts and Carrie, we really worked to get
folks in and out as smoothly as possible.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
I will say my son moved into Residence Hall several
years ago, about three years ago. Very smooth process. So
it's a very well oiled machine.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
At this point.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
There are people telling you where to park, there's volunteers
ready with carts to help people, you know, get their
belongings to and from their rooms, and so yeah, it's
a very well oiled machine.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I think we can all agree that might be the
only good thing that came out of the pandemic.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
Yes, well I was going to say we could debate that,
but yes, I think it is certainly a good thing.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Okay, good deal.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Carrie show Walter, she's the interim dean of students. Now
let's see tell me about the Welcome Week bucket list.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Oh, that's fun that we just we started that, I
think maybe last year. It was the first year. So
it starts out it basically looks like a playing card.
So when students check in, it's like a Bingo cars.
It's a Bingo card and they're granted the card and
then they have to go to work.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Harry, Yeah, they have to go to several different spots
and get is it stickers this year stickers and they
get stickers and fill up their card and so it
gets them interacting and gets them to know campus spaces
on campus where resources and you know, were places for
them to engage. So it really helps them get to
know the campus as well as have fun at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You know, we're having fun talking about it, but when
you get serious about it, the next two weeks is
really very important for these students to get a good start.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
It is you know, this is a time of great transition.
You know, it's a and with transition, you know, there's
a lot of change, and so we are providing opportunities
for them to really kind of foster community and create connection.
So yeah, these these the first six weeks are actually
really critical for students trying to find opportunities for them
to plug in.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
So in the same vein is getting a good start.
Any idea who the Fall fest.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Or I wish we could tell you, but that will
be unveiled on Friday, and.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
The Fall Fast Performer announcement is scheduled for new on Friday.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, all right, well that's good to know because when
I told some people I was doing this interview and
they said.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What about Fallfest?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
What about?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Okay, I'll find.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Out now fall Fest is on Monday night, and be
aware of that. We'll have Yeah, it's shifted back one night,
so we'll have Sunday Night Lights, which is our first
year student event. That's Sunday at Mylon Pushgar Stadium. Monday
night is fall Fest. Gates open at six thirty, performances
begin at seven. That is at the Evansdale Rec Fields
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near the Student Rec Center. And then Tuesday night will
have a new event which we're pretty excited about. It's
called Mountaineer Movie Night. So Tuesday Night, Gaze open at
Mylon Pushgar Stadium at seven thirty and we'll show a
movie at eight thirty. And we are inviting all students
to that event, plus faculty, staff and their families. That's
something to really try to bring the entire university community
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together before classes start on Wednesday, August twentieth.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Okay, now let's see the eighteenth. I think I'm a
little far from the computer.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
So the eighteenth, I believe, is the inaugural edition. This
year's inaugural edition of Up All Night.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Up All Night is the sixteenth. Yeah, sixteenth, squint a
little bit there, Mike.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Sixteenth. Okay, sorry, time to have my prescription updated.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Ten pm Saturday, August sixteenth. That'll be the first up
all night of the year, free snacks, games, arts and
crafts and more. And that's really to get students out
from ten pm to two am at the Mountain Layer
to meet their students. People love up all night.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
Yeah, up all nights wonderful because there's something for everyone.
You know, there's if people sometimes like to interact in
small groups, you know, maybe they like crafting, maybe they
like gaming. There's literally something for everyone. Maybe they just
want to come for the food. There's wonderful fooded up
on night.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
As well, and you will see people lined up for crafts. Yeah,
they really like the crafts.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
They do interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay, now, running close on time, but tell me a
little bit about the Honors kickoff.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
The Honors Kickoff is really tied into our Academic Day
and all of those activities. So those are for our
Honors College students who are checking in through the coming weekend.
We also just want to flag that there are a
number of Academic Day sessions on August nineteenth. Again, the
idea is to get students here and get them meeting
people out doing things to help them get started in
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a great way for the fall semester.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Okay, absolutely, And I do want to highlight the Student
Orgfair two which is also on Tuesday, and that's a
great time for students to get to know some of
the organizations and get involved in either academic or non
academic organizations to kind of you know, if.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
You don't mind, would you mind sticking around beyond the
break and there I could give you a little more time.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Wonderful, Okay, perfect.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Well, good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
We're lad you're with this overcast and seventy six degrees
and Metro Newsaki Weather says today it looks like for
the first day and quite a while, we could be
looking at the chance of possibly a shower of thunderstorm. However,
maybe just a little bit cooler today eighty two degrees
and studio we've got the Interim Dean of Students, Vice
President of Student Life, Kerrie shol Walter, and the Director
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of Strategic Communications SHAWNA.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Johnson. Now, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Now, Carrie, I would like for you to revisit that
topic you brought up please.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
About the Student ork Fair.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Please.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
So the Student Organization Fair is on Tuesday, and we
have almost two hundred student organizations signed up, and it's
an opportunity for students to come and get to know
what we have to offer. I always tell students try
one academic student organization and then try something new, like
maybe you want to learn to make kombucha, or maybe
you want to join our club basketball team. So it's
a good opportunity for them to see what's out there
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in terms of organizations.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
And I think it's maybe a good practice for student
it's in a new place, getting new friends.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
To be busy, Yes, that's absolutely.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
I think there's just something to keep them, to keep
people occupied. Like I said earlier, it's a time of transition,
and it's nice to meet people who are going through
the same things that you're going through and so to
make those connections. So yeah, there's something to keep people busy,
probably from tomorrow morning through the startup classes on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Anything going on for the parents.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Yes, we have parent receptions and so I believe that
starts Thursday, and so we have they're called I Survived
movem in receptions, and so we always joke it. At
moving there's the parents there that are crying and the
ones that are given a high five because they're ready
to drop their kids off. So yes, it's just an
opportunity for them to meet other parents and unwind after
a day of moving.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Ready to go fill the tank and get on the
image exactly exactly.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
It's really an emotional time. It are a lot of
families to be there at that moment where you know
the siblings came and they're leaving them. Yes, that's always interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, you know, having been through that in a couple
different iterations, I can tell you that, yes, you do
look forward to it. And then once you do fill
the tank and get on the interstate, it's.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Like, ah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
It's hard. But I will say I think this provides
an opportunity for students to plug in and thrive. And
I think as parents, when you leave your students and
you know they're you know, connecting to a community and
they're thriving, I think that makes it a little bit easier.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I think you're right too, because I think those parents
know that they've set them up with the tools they
need to be able to interact with folks like you
and learn what they can.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yes, absolutely definitely.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, last thing I wanted to talk about, I think
what about first year or first generation college students?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Anything for those folks.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
We have a lot of support for first gen college
students and so we will have a lot of activities
for them, not necessarily activities, but opportunities to connect to
those resources to support those students. So, you know, our
office at supports our first gen students are going to
be volunteering, They're active, and so certainly willing to connect
with those students to make sure they have the tools
they need and the extra support they need. You know,
maybe they need someone they don't know who can answer
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their questions, you know, because they don't have maybe a
family member who's been through that. So the first gen
folks in that group of people who provide that support
will be out and about.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Okay, well, ladies, I'm very sorry we got a late start,
but is there anything that you would like to add.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
It's really a wonderful time at West Virginia University. We
have our new president who you met, Michael T. Benson.
We have a first year class over forty five hundred.
We have housing applications that have increased and there's a
lot of enthusiasm on campus right now. We are really
really looking forward to this year and it all really
gets started tomorrow. Thank you to everyone in the Morgantown
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community for your understandations. Yeah, for your patients, and just
know that we're all in this together.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Just remember it's the cars, not the kids. Overcast in
seventy six, we're going to speak with the chair of
the Mond County GOP Executive Committe, Dale Sparks. We're going
to do that next about their Lincoln Day dinner coming
up in October.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
five eight two fivey five. This is the talk of
the Town.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Of Good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
You'll want to watch Walnut Street and Brockway Avenue, specifically
around the hog Back. I believe that there's a dump
truck that has lost some pretty good sized rocks.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
In that area.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So if you're especially if you're in a passenger car
when you're coming over that hill coming towards downtown into
the hog Back, you want to observe that twenty five
mile an hour speed limit. That's for sure. On the phone,
we've got Dale Sparks, the chairman of the mont County
GOP Executive Committee. Hey, good morning, Dale, how are you.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Good morning, Mike. I'm doing great, fantastic to be with
you this morning.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Well, we appreciate your time, Dale, And of course the
big Lincoln Day Dinner is coming up later this year.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Tell us tell us more.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Well, first of all, I have to start with the correction.
It's the Reagan Dinner. Ah, we love Lincoln, that we
honor Ronald Reagan with our fifteenth to annual Reagan Dinner
that we've held here in Montagaya County, and it's going
to be a special evening.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Well, I've only for the last few years. I apologize,
I got the name wrong.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
That's okay. Well, we like Lincoln and we like Reagan,
so so it's all good. But we're gonna have we're
presenting a patriotic evening of honor and inspiration at our
fifteenth annual Reagan Dinner. That's October sixteenth. That'll be a
Thursday night, starting at five and goes to about nine.
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We're having a very special keynote speaker come in and
that would be a lot of Republicans will be very
familiar with our keynote speaker, which is Johnny Joey Jones,
New York Times bestseller list author, Fox News contributor, and
more importantly, an American hero and Marine Corps veteran who
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in twenty ten lost both his legs in an ied
explosion in Afghanistan. And he has just re released Behind
the Badge book that is a hot seller right now.
So we're so excited. This is going to be at
lake View Resort, like I said Thursday, October sixteenth, and
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we're just so excited to have Joey Jones coming here
to speak. He is an American hero. He will be
an inspiration to us all with his story. He just
celebrated his fifteenth a live day achieved. He celebrates being
alive now because he was very close to being dead
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if not, but he was saved by his compadres there
that helped him and kept him alive. So we're so excited.
He is an amazing speaker and just an amazing man.
If you've watched Fox News any of.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
All, you've seen him absolutely. The chairman of the Mont
County GOP. Dale Sparks is with us and now Dale
on that book. Will there be opportunities for people to
get that book that he's written.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yes, we will be we will have that set up
or we're working out the details right now, but we
will have books available as we go. I want to
tell you about our sponsorships. We're going to have books
available to sell at the event, to buy and get,
and I would imagine some of them will be pre
autographed or get it autographed exactly that night. But we're
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going to have a VIP session for our sponsors. Now.
We've got several levels of sponsorship available. We're not going
to go into all the details right now, but we
have a Patriot level, a freedom level, and a liberty level,
and we want you to go visit moncountygop dot org
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to get all the details. But individual tickets are also
available on our website at one hundred dollars apiece, and
then we also have some tables where you can buy
a table for one thousand dollars. There's ten people to
per table, so that works out to one hundred dollars apiece.
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But we will have books available for the VIPs. If
you want to be a VIP, you'll get a free
book and autograph, plus the opportunity to meet with Joey,
and since I'm have something to do with theography, I'm
not sure we're going to have a photo opportunity for
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every VIP to have a picture taken with Joey. So
it's going to be a big night of celebrating and
honoring an inspiration, a patriotic evening.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It's the Mont County GOP of your reag and Dinner
on the sixteenth of October out at the Lakeview. Go ahead, Dale,
didn't mean to interrupt you, sir.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Well, no, that's okay. I'm just going to say, we're
so excited. We have a program that starts at five
with the registration and social hour, and then the big
program starts at six. We'll have dinner at six point thirty.
We have a couple of other special guests that we'll
have there. We haven't nailed them down yet, but we'll
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have a couple of guest speakers that everyone will know,
and then Johnny will give his keynote remarks. We'll have
a toast to America at the closing, and then right
after that is the special VIP reception for all the sponsors.
So it's going to be an evening, like I said,
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an evening a patriotic evening. We also have a limited
amount of tickets available for veterans, So any veterans that
are interested in joining us that night, we've got a
special special deal going for them with Johnny Joey Jones,
because there's not a better surviving vet out there than
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Johnny Joey Jones. He is an amazing, amazing man.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Certainly a great advocate for veterans as well and mental
health issues.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Absolutely, Joe has struggled through the last fifteen years, and
you know, what was the struggle at first has turned
into a mighty achievement for him and he is thriving
now on Fox News. He is pretty highly in demands speaker,
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and his book sales are through the roof, So we're
really excited about the possibilities and what he brings to
the dinner for us, and we know that it's going
to be well attended. We have around four hundred seats available,
so you're going to have to act quickly, and that's
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why we urge you to go to the moncountygop dot
org and start. We've already started selling tickets, selling sponsorships,
so if you want to get on board, you'd better
get on board fast.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Okay, good deal. That's moncountygp dot org. It's where you
can get those tickets that event coming up on October
the sixteenth out of the lake View from five until nine. Now, Dale,
I'd like for you to come back onto the program
and I can give you some more time and we'll
go into some more detail about those sponsorships.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yes, sir, And let me just mention this. If you
have any questions of all, feel free to contact me
at my sale number three oh four two eight two
nine eight nine nine, because we will We'll have all
the information you need here. We're not shy about presenting
that information you should be as a feel free to
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give us a call or contact us on the website.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Okay, good deal. Hey Dale, Thanks good to catch up
with you. Take care and have a good day. Stay dry.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
All right, Mike, thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Hey you bet, you bet.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
It is nine p fifty the thunderstorm in the University
city just about seventy seven degrees and it is a
wanted Wednesday. So we need you to do now is
to go out to the Montagelia County Sheriff's Department website
and on the phone, I've got Montagelia County Sheriff Todd Forbes.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Good morning, Sheriff Forbes. How are you.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
Good morning, Mike, I'm great.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Thanks for having me absolutely well. It's good to have
you on board. Sheriff who were looking for today.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
Well, I want to first say I want to again
thank the community for all the interaction that they're giving us.
All the cooperation and tips are wonderful. It really makes
it a lot easier. Here also updates you to the
fact that we have now after ten to fifteen individuals
we have posted on there, so in five new ones
today and the new ones today. What you can see
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on our web page is Miranda Coole, she's one of
her home confinement violation, Jennifer Culbreath for a fraud, Justin
McCann for forgery, uttering and faus and schemes and violation
of his probation. Edward Joseph Ramsey phony domestic battery and
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failure to appear, and lastly Ralph Triplett the second for
child abuse resulting an injury. All those folks are on
the web page. You can get a picture of those
and again I want to thank everybody for their system.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
That web page.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
By the way, he is Montaguelia Sheriff dot gov. It's
a brand new website. You can take a look at
the bad guys as well as get more information about
the Sheriff's department as well.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
How's everything on the streets in Montaguelia County today, Well.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
It's wet today, obviously, Mike. We're just gearing up for
the students to come back and brace them for what
comes with that, and just trying around up some bad guys.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Absolutely, it's a great time to do it.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
And like always, we tell the listeners each and every week,
if you know these people, if you see these people,
let the police department, the Sheriff's department do the dirty work.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Don't get involved.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
That's right. It's some of these folks are fairly dangerous
and it's just better to make nacktips and pick up
the phone. And that's what's what our guys get paid
to do. They're professionals.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Once again, we're looking for Miranda Cool, Jennifer cole Breath,
Justin McCann, Edward Ramsey, and Ralph Triplett. The second those
bad guys are all at Monteingalia, Moningelia sheriff dot gov.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
That's Montgelia Sheriff dot gov.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
You can take a look at those those mugshots and
if you can help the sheriff's department by all means,
give them a call.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Sheriff, appreciate your time.
Speaker 8 (35:26):
Hey, thank you, Mike. Good day.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Absolutely, you take care of yourself. Sheriff Todd Forbes, Montgelia
County Sheriff
This is the Talk of the Town from Morgantown to Klucksburg.
If it's happening, we're talking about it. Call the show
toll free at one eight hundred seven sixty five eight
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Talk of the Town, Mike Nolting.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, welcome to Talk of the Town and good Wednesday morning,
overcast and seventy six degrees. Welcome to the program where
we highlight things important to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Mike Nolting, you'll find me out on x as your
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
Line and would love to hear from you today. That
number three oh four Talk three oh four. Ethan Collins
is our producer today. That telephone number is eight hundred
seven six five eight two five five. Today we're going
to be speaking with some representatives from West Virginia University
because this afternoon at four o'clock, Welcome Week kicks off,
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and we're going to learn a little bit more about
Welcome Week and everything that's going to be happening to
the lead up of the start of classes for the
fall semester. At nine point thirty, going to be speaking
with the Monn County Republican Party we're going to learn
about their Lincoln Day dinner coming up in October. More
(01:23):
details about that that'll be held to believe it is
October the sixteenth out at the Lakeview, but we'll get
more information about that later in the program. Let's take
a look at a couple of headlines. The state is
getting out of the long term care business. They're selling
state run facilities in a deal that could be as
(01:45):
much as a decade old. They're selling these to the
Mars Development Group for sixty million dollars. Now they will
assume operations of the facilities and then they also promised
to build three to five new.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Two facilities as well.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Morgantown City Council's approved a contract with Mountaineer Infrastructure LLC
for the next phase of work at the Morgantown Municipal Airport.
Phase five came in at six point seven four million dollars.
It consists of grading and the placement of rock embankment. Now,
this is where we're beginning to get some work done
(02:25):
both on the airport I'm sorry, the runway extension project
and the I sixty eight Commerce Park. Eleven were arrested
in a drug bust in Marion County. Warrants were served
at a home on Maryland Avenue early Tuesday morning. I
believe it was about one thirty. Police confiscated fentanyl, cocaine,
(02:45):
meth and other drug paraphernalia. All the Brewers put to
the Pirates fourteen to nothing. Paul Skeens allowed four runs
on six hits in four innings. Skien's first loss since
lie the eleventh month. Let's see he allowed a total
of four runs in his last four starts. Well, coming
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up next we will spend some time with We've got
folks from West Virginia University.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Welcome week.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Get started at four o'clock this afternoon. We've got a
lot of questions about what is happening. We're going to
do that next on Top of the Town AM fourteen
forty FM oneh four point five WAJR.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Now back to the talk of the town.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
A good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It is nine fourteen in the University city of somewhat
important trial of note happening in Montengelia County this week.
To bring to your attention, if you remember, back in
septeb Member of twenty twenty three, we were in the
throes of academic transformation and some of the meetings. I
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happened to be up at the Creative Arts Center that morning,
and later that morning, the Morgantown Fire Department was dispatched
to the seven hundred block of Well Street where there
was a gas explosion. Four WVU students four young women
lived in that home on Well Street. In the aftermath
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of the investigation into what happened, a gentleman by the
name of John Bland was charged with involuntary manslaughter. He
was charged after the criminal investigation uncovered that Bland performed
the maintenance work at the residence without the proper certification.
They contend that led to the gas leak that caused
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the explosion. That explosion seriously injured Carly Grocer. She was
treated at the West penn Hospital in Pittsburgh from September.
The incident happened September sixth. She then passed away in
January of twenty twenty four at the age of twenty.
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That trial is going on in the Montingelia County Justice
Center this week. We hope to have an update for
you coming up later, possibly today or in tomorrow now.
Grozer was a native of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was a
junior studying Communications Studies with a minor and marketing. She
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had worked for the Prospect and Price Creative Group in
the WVU Students media run marketing agency. She was also
a member of the WVU Women's Lacrosse Club. That trial
going on at the Montingelia County Justice Center this week,
and we'll be sure and bring that issue some updates
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and bring those to you as soon as we can.
Morgantown City Council on Tuesday. Some issues, some resolutions, and
you know, let's keep in mind that resolutions are much
different than ordinances, really aren't necessarily carrying a lot of weight,
just kind of directing what the opinions of that particular
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council might be. However, nevertheless, a couple of resolutions made
it into the agenda that weren't necessarily a part of
the Committee of the Whole. The reason that the process
works like that is that the issues are brought up,
they're able to have open debate. As we learned with
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the first meeting of this particular city Council, it was
delayed because they couldn't meet the requirements of the Open
Meetings Act. That Committee of the Whole is supposed to
be a platform for the councilors to be able to
propose issues or ideas discussions and then they can vote
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as to whether or not those items make it to
the regular agenda. Then that gives the public a little
bit of notice, so they know.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
A couple of the items that got brought up that
were maybe added to the agenda were one a resolution
asking the legislature to support their efforts in gaining increased
funding for disabled coal miners, and we'll get back to that.
The second issue was a resolution to oppose the sighting
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and installation of the mid Atlantic Resiliency Link. Now, you
know both of those issues, really, I don't think you
could find a lot of room for anybody in the
community to say, you know, we're against disabled coal miners
getting more money, or we're against you know, maybe our
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county getting torn up by an outside entity.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But one of the.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
One of the things that was brought up was the
fact that maybe Montgelia County commissions asking other municipalities to
join them in this fight. And that's not a completely
untrue statement, because certainly Shan Sikora, who makes it a
habit to speak very matter of factly, did ask for
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municipalities to join them in their fight and band together
against this project. But I think the context of those
comments were more in the range of Hampshire Mineral and
Jefferson Counties and Preston at Preston into that list as well. Please,
I believe his comments were more geared towards that than
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they were maybe Granville, Stars City or Morgantown, because, as
Shawn brought up during that meeting, what he wanted to
do was to be able to band together with them
in maybe some sort of a legal relationship that would
get them hooked to the case and the Public Service Commission,
so then they would be they would be eligible or
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they would be on the list to get regular updates
about that project, as well as the other counties affected.
Now getting back to the agenda and the new city
council that's on board, now, this was brought to my attention,
oh long time ago. Ah, when I say a long
time ago, not really a long time ago, maybe a
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couple of weeks ago, but that was there was an
event that happened before this council was sworn in where
Mayor Trumpell, Deputy Mayor Butcher, Councilman Downs, and Councilman Hollingshead
showed up at a run just certainly within their right.
They were all wearing shirts that said quick as Quorn
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raised a lot of questions, A lot of people brought
those questions to me. You know, I didn't think too
much about it, didn't say a whole lot, as a
matter of fact, didn't say anything about it until this
particular moment right now, because of this exchange during last
night's meeting that it lasts just about a minute in
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forty five seconds. But if you would indulge me, here
we go. And what we're talking about here is this
is a discussion about the mid Atlantic Resiliency link and
the possibility of maybe moving this tabling this and moving
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it on to the next meeting. Now, keep in mind
that the Council did approve both of these resolutions during
their regular meeting last night, so moving this to the
next agenda really isn't going to make a whole lot
of difference. But let's just let's listen in.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, it's one of the counselors that the that agreed
with these items being you know, brought forward in support
of the resolution and support of the resolutions. I'm happy
to see them on the agenda.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I do.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I do wonder though, if there doesn't need to be
such a sense of urgency and we're not maybe missing
an opportunity.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
To I think to raise awareness to be fine to
maybe Ryan, I would say, procedurally, would probably table the
I mean, I don't we can't really take a vote.
Can we request a second vote?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Is that okay?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Certainly you could just move this item to your next agenda.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Okay, so we could do a vote to move it
to the next agenda after we discuss each if you
would like to. And I think that's fair enough. To
raise awareness, I would say, like when these when these
items come up, I think everybody is open to feedback
about them, and.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
We are.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
We should ensure that we make these meetings places that
we discuss these things and have healthy and open to day,
not have it somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
But uh, yeah, I totally agree with that sentiment. I
don't think that historically that that that that there's been
enough of that in in in these meetings, and I
think we would all benefit our city would benefit by
it by it, So thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And that's the debate that followed the I guess the
interaction between counsel about how those resolutions actually got to
the agenda, And I think what Brian Butcher says there
is that we need to have these debates in that
room and not anywhere else. Kind of a curious situation.
Let's shift gears. We'll come back though. In studio we
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have the interim Dean of Students and the Associate Vice
President of Student Life, Carrie Showalter, and we also have
the one, the only, Shanna Johnson with us. Good morning, ladies,
how are you?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Good morning? Goode you hey, Mike, how.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Are you hey? I'm doing good. Good to see you.
How are you?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I'm doing great? Are you ready for the time of
year in Morgantown when things changed dramatically? We grow the
size of the city in the matter of days.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's what it is. And I was thinking about this
last night. It's not about the students. For me, it's
about the cars.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Build in some extra travel time.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Exactly exactly, well, you know, welcome. We get started at
four o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
It's sure it does. Yeah, yeah, we have our first
event this afternoon at four o'clock for our commuter students.
So we'll be at President Benson's house for just a
commuter kickoff event.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
All right, all right, I bet the commuter students are
going to be happy about that.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Oh it's exciting. We just started a few years ago
and we have great attendance. So yeah, it's a really
wonderful event for them.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Okay, Well, walk me through the rest of Welcome Week.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
So Welcome Week is really about making sure our new
and returning students get started on the right foot. So
what you'll see is a mix of fun social activities,
some service oriented activities, and also academic events to get
them set up. Because the first day of classes, if
you don't have it circled on your calendar like all
of us, is August twentieth, which is next Wednesday. So
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tomorrow is really when things get going because we'll have
our designated residence hall move in days Tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday,
starting at eight thirty in the morning until six pm.
Our residence Hall residence will be arriving in designated times slow,
so they have two hour blocks and that gives them
time to get in. When they arrive at their designated
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residence hall, volunteers are ready to greet them and their
Welcome Week shirts and Carrie, we really worked to get
folks in and out as smoothly as possible.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
I will say my son moved into Residence Hall several
years ago, about three years ago. Very smooth process. So
it's a very well oiled machine.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
At this point.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
There are people telling you where to park, there's volunteers
ready with carts to help people, you know, get their
belongings to and from their rooms, and so yeah, it's
a very well oiled machine.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I think we can all agree that might be the
only good thing that came out of the pandemic.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
Yes, well I was going to say we could debate that,
but yes, I think it is certainly a good thing.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Okay, good deal.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Carrie show Walter, she's the interim dean of students. Now
let's see tell me about the Welcome Week bucket list.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Oh, that's fun that we just we started that, I
think maybe last year. It was the first year. So
it starts out it basically looks like a playing card.
So when students check in, it's like a Bingo cars.
It's a Bingo card and they're granted the card and
then they have to go to work.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Harry, Yeah, they have to go to several different spots
and get is it stickers this year stickers and they
get stickers and fill up their card and so it
gets them interacting and gets them to know campus spaces
on campus where resources and you know, were places for
them to engage. So it really helps them get to
know the campus as well as have fun at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You know, we're having fun talking about it, but when
you get serious about it, the next two weeks is
really very important for these students to get a good start.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
It is you know, this is a time of great transition.
You know, it's a and with transition, you know, there's
a lot of change, and so we are providing opportunities
for them to really kind of foster community and create connection.
So yeah, these these the first six weeks are actually
really critical for students trying to find opportunities for them
to plug in.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
So in the same vein is getting a good start.
Any idea who the Fall fest.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Or I wish we could tell you, but that will
be unveiled on Friday, and.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
The Fall Fast Performer announcement is scheduled for new on Friday.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, all right, well that's good to know because when
I told some people I was doing this interview and
they said.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What about Fallfest?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
What about?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Okay, I'll find.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Out now fall Fest is on Monday night, and be
aware of that. We'll have Yeah, it's shifted back one night,
so we'll have Sunday Night Lights, which is our first
year student event. That's Sunday at Mylon Pushgar Stadium. Monday
night is fall Fest. Gates open at six thirty, performances
begin at seven. That is at the Evansdale Rec Fields
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near the Student Rec Center. And then Tuesday night will
have a new event which we're pretty excited about. It's
called Mountaineer Movie Night. So Tuesday Night, Gaze open at
Mylon Pushgar Stadium at seven thirty and we'll show a
movie at eight thirty. And we are inviting all students
to that event, plus faculty, staff and their families. That's
something to really try to bring the entire university community
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together before classes start on Wednesday, August twentieth.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Okay, now let's see the eighteenth. I think I'm a
little far from the computer.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
So the eighteenth, I believe, is the inaugural edition. This
year's inaugural edition of Up All Night.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Up All Night is the sixteenth. Yeah, sixteenth, squint a
little bit there, Mike.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Sixteenth. Okay, sorry, time to have my prescription updated.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Ten pm Saturday, August sixteenth. That'll be the first up
all night of the year, free snacks, games, arts and
crafts and more. And that's really to get students out
from ten pm to two am at the Mountain Layer
to meet their students. People love up all night.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
Yeah, up all nights wonderful because there's something for everyone.
You know, there's if people sometimes like to interact in
small groups, you know, maybe they like crafting, maybe they
like gaming. There's literally something for everyone. Maybe they just
want to come for the food. There's wonderful fooded up
on night.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
As well, and you will see people lined up for crafts. Yeah,
they really like the crafts.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
They do interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay, now, running close on time, but tell me a
little bit about the Honors kickoff.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
The Honors Kickoff is really tied into our Academic Day
and all of those activities. So those are for our
Honors College students who are checking in through the coming weekend.
We also just want to flag that there are a
number of Academic Day sessions on August nineteenth. Again, the
idea is to get students here and get them meeting
people out doing things to help them get started in
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a great way for the fall semester.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Okay, absolutely, And I do want to highlight the Student
Orgfair two which is also on Tuesday, and that's a
great time for students to get to know some of
the organizations and get involved in either academic or non
academic organizations to kind of you know, if.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
You don't mind, would you mind sticking around beyond the
break and there I could give you a little more time.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Wonderful, Okay, perfect.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Well, good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
We're lad you're with this overcast and seventy six degrees
and Metro Newsaki Weather says today it looks like for
the first day and quite a while, we could be
looking at the chance of possibly a shower of thunderstorm. However,
maybe just a little bit cooler today eighty two degrees
and studio we've got the Interim Dean of Students, Vice
President of Student Life, Kerrie shol Walter, and the Director
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of Strategic Communications SHAWNA.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Johnson. Now, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Now, Carrie, I would like for you to revisit that
topic you brought up please.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
About the Student ork Fair.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Please.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
So the Student Organization Fair is on Tuesday, and we
have almost two hundred student organizations signed up, and it's
an opportunity for students to come and get to know
what we have to offer. I always tell students try
one academic student organization and then try something new, like
maybe you want to learn to make kombucha, or maybe
you want to join our club basketball team. So it's
a good opportunity for them to see what's out there
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in terms of organizations.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
And I think it's maybe a good practice for student
it's in a new place, getting new friends.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
To be busy, Yes, that's absolutely.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
I think there's just something to keep them, to keep
people occupied. Like I said earlier, it's a time of transition,
and it's nice to meet people who are going through
the same things that you're going through and so to
make those connections. So yeah, there's something to keep people busy,
probably from tomorrow morning through the startup classes on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Anything going on for the parents.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Yes, we have parent receptions and so I believe that
starts Thursday, and so we have they're called I Survived
movem in receptions, and so we always joke it. At
moving there's the parents there that are crying and the
ones that are given a high five because they're ready
to drop their kids off. So yes, it's just an
opportunity for them to meet other parents and unwind after
a day of moving.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Ready to go fill the tank and get on the
image exactly exactly.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
It's really an emotional time. It are a lot of
families to be there at that moment where you know
the siblings came and they're leaving them. Yes, that's always interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, you know, having been through that in a couple
different iterations, I can tell you that, yes, you do
look forward to it. And then once you do fill
the tank and get on the interstate, it's.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Like, ah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
It's hard. But I will say I think this provides
an opportunity for students to plug in and thrive. And
I think as parents, when you leave your students and
you know they're you know, connecting to a community and
they're thriving, I think that makes it a little bit easier.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I think you're right too, because I think those parents
know that they've set them up with the tools they
need to be able to interact with folks like you
and learn what they can.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yes, absolutely definitely.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, last thing I wanted to talk about, I think
what about first year or first generation college students?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Anything for those folks.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
We have a lot of support for first gen college
students and so we will have a lot of activities
for them, not necessarily activities, but opportunities to connect to
those resources to support those students. So, you know, our
office at supports our first gen students are going to
be volunteering, They're active, and so certainly willing to connect
with those students to make sure they have the tools
they need and the extra support they need. You know,
maybe they need someone they don't know who can answer
(23:03):
their questions, you know, because they don't have maybe a
family member who's been through that. So the first gen
folks in that group of people who provide that support
will be out and about.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Okay, well, ladies, I'm very sorry we got a late start,
but is there anything that you would like to add.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
It's really a wonderful time at West Virginia University. We
have our new president who you met, Michael T. Benson.
We have a first year class over forty five hundred.
We have housing applications that have increased and there's a
lot of enthusiasm on campus right now. We are really
really looking forward to this year and it all really
gets started tomorrow. Thank you to everyone in the Morgantown
(23:39):
community for your understandations. Yeah, for your patients, and just
know that we're all in this together.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Just remember it's the cars, not the kids. Overcast in
seventy six, we're going to speak with the chair of
the Mond County GOP Executive Committe, Dale Sparks. We're going
to do that next about their Lincoln Day dinner coming
up in October.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
five eight two fivey five. This is the talk of
the Town.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Of Good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
You'll want to watch Walnut Street and Brockway Avenue, specifically
around the hog Back. I believe that there's a dump
truck that has lost some pretty good sized rocks.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
In that area.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So if you're especially if you're in a passenger car
when you're coming over that hill coming towards downtown into
the hog Back, you want to observe that twenty five
mile an hour speed limit. That's for sure. On the phone,
we've got Dale Sparks, the chairman of the mont County
GOP Executive Committee. Hey, good morning, Dale, how are you.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Good morning, Mike. I'm doing great, fantastic to be with
you this morning.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Well, we appreciate your time, Dale, And of course the
big Lincoln Day Dinner is coming up later this year.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Tell us tell us more.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Well, first of all, I have to start with the correction.
It's the Reagan Dinner. Ah, we love Lincoln, that we
honor Ronald Reagan with our fifteenth to annual Reagan Dinner
that we've held here in Montagaya County, and it's going
to be a special evening.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Well, I've only for the last few years. I apologize,
I got the name wrong.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
That's okay. Well, we like Lincoln and we like Reagan,
so so it's all good. But we're gonna have we're
presenting a patriotic evening of honor and inspiration at our
fifteenth annual Reagan Dinner. That's October sixteenth. That'll be a
Thursday night, starting at five and goes to about nine.
(26:00):
We're having a very special keynote speaker come in and
that would be a lot of Republicans will be very
familiar with our keynote speaker, which is Johnny Joey Jones,
New York Times bestseller list author, Fox News contributor, and
more importantly, an American hero and Marine Corps veteran who
(26:23):
in twenty ten lost both his legs in an ied
explosion in Afghanistan. And he has just re released Behind
the Badge book that is a hot seller right now.
So we're so excited. This is going to be at
lake View Resort, like I said Thursday, October sixteenth, and
(26:45):
we're just so excited to have Joey Jones coming here
to speak. He is an American hero. He will be
an inspiration to us all with his story. He just
celebrated his fifteenth a live day achieved. He celebrates being
alive now because he was very close to being dead
(27:06):
if not, but he was saved by his compadres there
that helped him and kept him alive. So we're so excited.
He is an amazing speaker and just an amazing man.
If you've watched Fox News any of.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
All, you've seen him absolutely. The chairman of the Mont
County GOP. Dale Sparks is with us and now Dale
on that book. Will there be opportunities for people to
get that book that he's written.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yes, we will be we will have that set up
or we're working out the details right now, but we
will have books available as we go. I want to
tell you about our sponsorships. We're going to have books
available to sell at the event, to buy and get,
and I would imagine some of them will be pre
autographed or get it autographed exactly that night. But we're
(27:59):
going to have a VIP session for our sponsors. Now.
We've got several levels of sponsorship available. We're not going
to go into all the details right now, but we
have a Patriot level, a freedom level, and a liberty level,
and we want you to go visit moncountygop dot org
(28:23):
to get all the details. But individual tickets are also
available on our website at one hundred dollars apiece, and
then we also have some tables where you can buy
a table for one thousand dollars. There's ten people to
per table, so that works out to one hundred dollars apiece.
(28:43):
But we will have books available for the VIPs. If
you want to be a VIP, you'll get a free
book and autograph, plus the opportunity to meet with Joey,
and since I'm have something to do with theography, I'm
not sure we're going to have a photo opportunity for
(29:05):
every VIP to have a picture taken with Joey. So
it's going to be a big night of celebrating and
honoring an inspiration, a patriotic evening.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It's the Mont County GOP of your reag and Dinner
on the sixteenth of October out at the Lakeview. Go ahead, Dale,
didn't mean to interrupt you, sir.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Well, no, that's okay. I'm just going to say, we're
so excited. We have a program that starts at five
with the registration and social hour, and then the big
program starts at six. We'll have dinner at six point thirty.
We have a couple of other special guests that we'll
have there. We haven't nailed them down yet, but we'll
(29:45):
have a couple of guest speakers that everyone will know,
and then Johnny will give his keynote remarks. We'll have
a toast to America at the closing, and then right
after that is the special VIP reception for all the sponsors.
So it's going to be an evening, like I said,
(30:05):
an evening a patriotic evening. We also have a limited
amount of tickets available for veterans, So any veterans that
are interested in joining us that night, we've got a
special special deal going for them with Johnny Joey Jones,
because there's not a better surviving vet out there than
(30:28):
Johnny Joey Jones. He is an amazing, amazing man.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Certainly a great advocate for veterans as well and mental
health issues.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Absolutely, Joe has struggled through the last fifteen years, and
you know, what was the struggle at first has turned
into a mighty achievement for him and he is thriving
now on Fox News. He is pretty highly in demands speaker,
(31:01):
and his book sales are through the roof, So we're
really excited about the possibilities and what he brings to
the dinner for us, and we know that it's going
to be well attended. We have around four hundred seats available,
so you're going to have to act quickly, and that's
(31:21):
why we urge you to go to the moncountygop dot
org and start. We've already started selling tickets, selling sponsorships,
so if you want to get on board, you'd better
get on board fast.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Okay, good deal. That's moncountygp dot org. It's where you
can get those tickets that event coming up on October
the sixteenth out of the lake View from five until nine. Now, Dale,
I'd like for you to come back onto the program
and I can give you some more time and we'll
go into some more detail about those sponsorships.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yes, sir, And let me just mention this. If you
have any questions of all, feel free to contact me
at my sale number three oh four two eight two
nine eight nine nine, because we will We'll have all
the information you need here. We're not shy about presenting
that information you should be as a feel free to
(32:17):
give us a call or contact us on the website.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Okay, good deal. Hey Dale, Thanks good to catch up
with you. Take care and have a good day. Stay dry.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
All right, Mike, thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Hey you bet, you bet.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
It is nine p fifty the thunderstorm in the University
city just about seventy seven degrees and it is a
wanted Wednesday. So we need you to do now is
to go out to the Montagelia County Sheriff's Department website
and on the phone, I've got Montagelia County Sheriff Todd Forbes.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Good morning, Sheriff Forbes. How are you.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
Good morning, Mike, I'm great.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Thanks for having me absolutely well. It's good to have
you on board. Sheriff who were looking for today.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
Well, I want to first say I want to again
thank the community for all the interaction that they're giving us.
All the cooperation and tips are wonderful. It really makes
it a lot easier. Here also updates you to the
fact that we have now after ten to fifteen individuals
we have posted on there, so in five new ones
today and the new ones today. What you can see
(33:20):
on our web page is Miranda Coole, she's one of
her home confinement violation, Jennifer Culbreath for a fraud, Justin
McCann for forgery, uttering and faus and schemes and violation
of his probation. Edward Joseph Ramsey phony domestic battery and
(33:42):
failure to appear, and lastly Ralph Triplett the second for
child abuse resulting an injury. All those folks are on
the web page. You can get a picture of those
and again I want to thank everybody for their system.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
That web page.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
By the way, he is Montaguelia Sheriff dot gov. It's
a brand new website. You can take a look at
the bad guys as well as get more information about
the Sheriff's department as well.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
How's everything on the streets in Montaguelia County today, Well.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
It's wet today, obviously, Mike. We're just gearing up for
the students to come back and brace them for what
comes with that, and just trying around up some bad guys.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Absolutely, it's a great time to do it.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
And like always, we tell the listeners each and every week,
if you know these people, if you see these people,
let the police department, the Sheriff's department do the dirty work.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Don't get involved.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
That's right. It's some of these folks are fairly dangerous
and it's just better to make nacktips and pick up
the phone. And that's what's what our guys get paid
to do. They're professionals.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Once again, we're looking for Miranda Cool, Jennifer cole Breath,
Justin McCann, Edward Ramsey, and Ralph Triplett. The second those
bad guys are all at Monteingalia, Moningelia sheriff dot gov.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
That's Montgelia Sheriff dot gov.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
You can take a look at those those mugshots and
if you can help the sheriff's department by all means,
give them a call.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Sheriff, appreciate your time.
Speaker 8 (35:26):
Hey, thank you, Mike. Good day.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Absolutely, you take care of yourself. Sheriff Todd Forbes, Montgelia
County Sheriff
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