November 21, 2025 • 35 mins
President and CEO of Your Community Foundation on their celebration of Community Foundation Week and awarding $300,000 in grants.
Amanda Bolyard on the Pantry Plus More Advent Calendar promotion
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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threeh four now. Earlier this week, your Community Foundation, well
they served mont Harrison, Marion, Preston and Taylor counties. Tuesday night,
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they celebrated Community Foundation Week by awarding three hundred thousand
dollars to area agencies focused on making life better for
many throughout that multi county area. A president and CEO
Patti Showers Ryan. She is going to join us with
all those details at nine point fifteen. Also helping in
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the community, that would be pantry plus more. They have
a new way that you can help this holiday season,
the Reverse Advent calendar. I think they did it last year,
so maybe it's not brand new. But Amanda Balliard she'll
join us at nine point thirty and we'll get details
about how that program works. Let's hit a couple of
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headlines and then we'll dive right in. Well, no details
have been released, but we know the two miners hospitalized
then one other hurt in the Leverage mine in Marion
County Wednesday morning. Two pieces of equipment reportedly collided at
nine forty two. No other details have been released. Now
the two miners are being treated at JW. Ruby Memorial
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Hospital in Morgantown for unspecified injuries. And believe it or not,
today is the anniversary of the Farmington mine disaster. Was
on this day at five.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Thirty a m.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That there was an explosion large enough to be felt
in the city of Fairmont, just about twelve miles away.
Let's see the miners. Twenty one miners were able to
escape the mines, seventy eight were still trapped. All who
were unable to escape perished, and the bodies of nineteen
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the dead were never recovered. The cause of the explosion
never determined. The accident served as a catalyst for many
new laws that were in act to protect miners of
Farmington Number nine Memorial. Don't know if you've been there,
I have you ought to check it out. Bear's name
of the men who died. It's located at the entrance
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of the Flat Run Road there in Mannington, West Virginia.
MUB crews. Well, they're working on green Bag Road today.
Might be an important traffic note for you. It's down
to one lane at Classics Restaurant or Deckers Creek Boulevard.
That's for paving and they'll be working there until just
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about four o'clock this afternoon. Of the United Way of
mount and Preston Counties they will assume operations on Scott Avenue.
It's Hazel's House of Hope. Former Catholic Charities leader doctor
Jessica Thompson. She'll be the point of contact for the
United United Way and the leader of that.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Facility and WVU Medicine.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
They're expanding into the southwestern region of the Keystone State.
WVEU Health System announced yesterday they will merge with Independence Health.
They operate five hospitals in the Pittsburgh area. WVU Medicine
President and CEO Albert Wright says they'll invest eight hundred
million dollars over five years to improve those facilities and
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that deal should close October first next year, pending regulatory approval.
And just an important traffic note also, if you're out
in the county, the doh they've had to make emergency
or they are in the process of making emergency repairs
to a bridge.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Out in the county.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The one lane bridge is on Birchfield Run Road near Morgantown.
Let's see the Tuesday evening, I believe an overweight truck
partially fell through the deck. Those repairs should be completed
within the next thirty days. And it is a WVU
Win Me's Education Day basketball game this morning. It'll be
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over at Hope Coliseum, a Battle of the Mountaineers the
wv you will take on Appalachian State. That tip off
is at ten fifteen this morning. That's a look at
a couple of headlines. When we come back, we'll welcome
President and CEO of your Community Foundation, Patty Showers, Ryan
to the program. It's coming up next on Talk of
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the Town AM fourteen forty FM one oh four point
five WAJR.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Now back to the Talk of the Town.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Good Thursday morning, Cloud's forty one degrees in the University City.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Glad that you're with us in studio.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We've got the president and CEO of your Community Foundation,
Patty Showers. Ryan.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Hey, Patty, good morning and really good to see.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Good morning, Mike. Thank you for inviting me, please to
be here.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's a pleasure to have you here. Now it is
Community Foundation Week. Let's start right there, Patty. Why is
it important to celebrate Community Foundation Week?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
It's there are, believe it or not, over eight hundred
community foundations across the country and still every day we're
educating people about the great work that we're able to
do to give back in the community. So we're a
nonprofit of five oh one c three charity and we're
able to manage donations from community members and we invest those.
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We don't spend the donations, we invest them, and that
way they're able to support the community long term imperpetuity
in the form of grants and scholarships, So it's just
really important. It allows us to have a week to
really shine and tell our story about all the great
work that we're able to give back in the community
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thanks to very generous donors.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
As a member of the media, I've had the opportunity
to watch your work and the fruits of your labor.
You might say things like providing a new stove in
a home, mech classroom here in a local school, to
providing seed money to start a drone club for a
group of elementary students, and even I think there was
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another group where there was some seed money provided to
start a classroom library.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Absolutely, it sounds like you're talking about our educator minigrants,
which we did like those provide again this year and
they have been just taken off with our educators. They
write such fantastic applications and it really isn't an initiative.
Have to give a shout out to our board of
directors because we're using our unrestricted funds donations that donors
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have given us and said, you know what, you know
what's best and what's needed in the community. You determine
how to use these awards and we did that again
this year, our Board of Directors actually said use them
for educator mini grants, which really came out of the pandemic.
We saw a lot of learning loss in twenty twenty
two and that.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Was our first year.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
This is now the third year making those educator mini grants,
and we've awarded over one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
back to our five county region for educators in the
area who are doing just outstanding projects and programs that
our students benefit from.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Now, those five counties happened to be Harrison, Marion, Mann,
Preston and Taylor Counties and on Tuesday night they came
to the Hotel Morgan to award three hundred thousand dollars
in scholarships.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, it's a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
It was actually grant funding.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
We do scholarships too, but that is really what we
do in the springtime. So this fall and just like
you said.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
On Tuesday night press release.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Oh okay, I can give you the new one, but yeah,
three hundred thousand dollars is the correct number. Actually, that
was similar to our scholarship awards. These are our grant
funds that we awarded at the Hotel Morgan and we
were celebrating the final day of National Community Foundation Week,
and I'm really happy to say.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
We were able to double the distribution.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Of grant funding that we did from last year in
November to this year. And that's really a result of
so many donors giving to our Impact fund, our unrestricted
funds are now we're seeing the fruits of those labors
that were able to use those distributions, and in addition,
a lot of our donor advisors partner with us as well,
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and we're able to help give back to the community
that way with their giving. And in addition, we had
some estate gifts that came through the last couple of
years to ladies that passed away unfortunately, but they're real
passionate about animal welfare and created very large endowments with
YCF that will continue in perpetuity and we will be
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able to continue making grants to animal welfare charities.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I've got the right press release now, and I apologize.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Oh it's okay, on.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
The same page with you now, But just to give
the listeners an idea of what an impact the foundation makes.
The grants range anywhere from three hundred and twenty five
dollars all the way up to twenty five thousand went
to seventy six local charitable organizations. So that low figure
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of three hundred and twenty five dollars give us an
idea of what kind of causes we're helping there, because
I bet they're just as important.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Absolutely, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, it's a lot of the educators that come to us,
and I think that we might all be familiar that
sometimes our educators want to improve their classrooms and they're
ending up using their own money, and we've really encouraged
them to apply for a grant through our educator minigrants.
So sometimes those are funding things like the classroom rug
for reading time, or maybe we see a lot of
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requests for fidgety type of things for the classroom to
help students. You know, they might need to fidget and
be moving around a little bit, but we still want
them learning and hearing from their educator. And these are
things that the educators have asked us to fund for
them in their classrooms to keep learning on track with
those students. So sometimes it's not a lot of money,
but it really, like you said, it really can go
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a long way.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
When I was in school, that fidget toy was a
ruler and I didn't have it. Yeah, well I got it, yeah,
but I didn't hold it. Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Now, do you find that in every grant cycle that
maybe the number of applications that you get, does it grow?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I wish we could fund every grant that we received,
but if there's never enough funding to do that, and
so we have an amazing group of volunteers who help
us review all the grant applications we receive. It's quite
an undertaking and you absolutely want to fund them all,
but unfortunately just not enough dollars to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah. And I would imagine that there are a lot
of organizations when they see a press release like this
go out and they look at all the people that
got grants are probably scratching their heads and wondering, you know, well,
how in the world did I not find out about
this until now?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
And we really try hard to get the message out
and we have a I will say that if anyone's
interested in the future learning about the things that YCF does.
We do have an email distribution list, We have social
media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. We try to
do press releases and just communicate and have people like
you Mike, you invite us to do talks with media,
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which we really appreciate to help the public learn more
about community foundations not here at home and you know,
across the United States.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Okay, now talk to us about the third annual Your
Community Foundation.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Billy Coffin daff Oh, that's such a nice award.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
We received an endowment to recognize volunteer leadership at Your
Community Foundation and invested those funds and every year there's
a distribution from that. And so one of those volunteer
leaders that was really important to the organization was Billy Coffindaffer. He,
as you may know, passed away a couple of years
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ago at the age of ninety five, just provided so
much service to the community and it was just this
is just a nice way to honor and recognize him.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
So each year we.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Select a nonprofit that demonstrates forward thinking vision and strength
and governance. Those were two criteria that were important to
Billy Coffin Daffer. And this year we selected our board
of directors chose Food for Preston, which is a nonprofit
in Preston County that is working with fifteen food pantries
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doing outstanding work. I believe they're celebrating their fortieth anniversary
this year, so they receive a one thousand dollars grant
from YCI. And then in addition, we were able to
surprise Tammy Laney this year. We're gonna put a billboard
up in Kingwood at the Walmart of a video billboard
just to congratulate Food for Preston and Tammy Laney for
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her hard work and as well as their board members.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That is well deserved, there is no doubt. Tell us
about some of the other grants that you'd like to
highlight that were awarded Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, Mike, I'm always trying not to highlight too many
grants because I leave people out and I don't want
to offend anybody but Laurie but Biltso and I had
this conversation in our office yesterday that you might ask
that question, so I have two quick examples. She was
really excited this year because we saw one of our
former scholarship recipients who went to college and got an education,
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got their education in music, and came back, got employed
in the school system in Preston County and is now
applying for grant funding for music education to benefit students
in Preston County. So it was really full circle to
see that student receive one of our scholarships and now
make a request as an educator for grant funds. So
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that was really nice to see that and also support
music in the arts and school, which is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
That is wonderful. That's a great story.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
And then the other one we love seeing this year
was just kind of new for us and is in
Harrison County. A high school senior applied for a grant
in collaboration with her teacher and received funding.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
For her school as well.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
So we thought that was a really wonderful partnership to
see now that the students are getting the experience in
grant writing and working with their teacher, and that we
were able to fund their project as well. And that
student in particular as a high school senior, and she's
working with students in the middle school.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Wow, that's great. That's great. Okay, So rather than focus
on grants, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
What do we need to do to get organized to
apply for a grant?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
That's a good question. So if you're we try to
keep our teacher mini grant application very simple intentionally because
we don't we know, teachers are busy and grant writing
is not something they do every day, so we want
to keep it pretty simple for them, and it's just
knowing what your project, what is your project and having
a budget to go with it. How much is that
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going to cost, how are you going to implement it,
and what's how are you going to measure the impact?
Which is important with any grant that you know you
apply for it is why why do you need the
funding and what are you going to do with the
funds and the outcome of that. If you're a nonprofit
applying for a grant, it gets a little bit more.
We ask a little bit more information. We might need
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to know your board of directors, you need to demonstrate
you have a budget for your organization, be in compliance
with the State of West Virginia, Secretary of State West Virginia,
and then also the irs. So we we do make
sure all of those things are in line kind of
what we would call the basics with running a nonprofit
organization and then tell us about your you know, we
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ask them, the nonprofits to tell us about what is
you want to do with the funds And it's the
same thing where you're saying you know, sometimes it's only
a five hundred dollars grant and sometimes it's a twenty
five thousand dollars grant. But a little bit of money
or a lot of money, you know, it goes a
long way. And we try to just help out. And
I will say that we're not you know, we are
not able to fund every grant that we receive. So
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we do also try to work really hard by reaching
out to other funders in the community that may have
funds available that we cannot provide. So we try to
keep a collaboration and network of other foundations or corporate
corporate funders even that may be looking for ways to
give back in the community and reach out to them
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if there's something that we can't do but maybe somebody
else can.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Okay, So what's the big the next big date on
the YCF calendar.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Oh gosh, we are wrapping up twenty twenty five and
making these distributions and then quickly turning things around to
put on get ready for our scholarships. So that's the
next thing that happens for us is in January, we
will make scholarship applications available on our website for students
to begin applying for scholarships that are awarded.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
In May, Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And that website just happens to be ycfwv dot org.
It's very easy to get around website. You won't have
any trouble there. Patty, how can we get in touch
with you maybe if somebody would like to give you
a call.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Our phone number is three zero four two nine six
three four three three, and we also have our website
which you mentioned, y cfwv dot org. And our email
is really easy. It's info I NFO at ycfwv dot org.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Okay, perfect, what Patty, really do appreciate you coming in
and appreciate the work that you and Laurie do in
the community.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Good Thursday mornings.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Clouds forty one in the University City Metro News. Aci
Weather says today it is going to be a fall
like day, clouds and a high have fifty two degrees
West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Five to one.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
One is reporting your crash at Bunner Ridge and Sawmill Roads.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Avoid that area if you can. And on the phone.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
We've got Amanda Balliard from Pantry Plus More. Amanda, good morning,
glad to have you on board.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
How are you.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
I'm good, Mike, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Appreciate it absolutely, Okay, the Reverse Advent Calendar tell us
how it works and who are we helping?
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Sure, so regarding who we help with this, Pantry plus
More is a five O one C three nonprofit that
works to eliminate obstacles that inhibit a child's ability to learn,
and a big piece of that is food and security
and one four children in the county are food and secure,
which means that they don't know where their next meal
is coming from. So the idea of the Reverse Advent
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Calendar is to have an item a day that you
purchase and you can put in a bag for us
and it follows the calendar and something that you can
do with your kids, and it helps stalk our our
storem shelves with our most needed items. Okay, So we
have a calendar and we take this to communities. I
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know that we're doing what we do it in South Park, Reenmont.
Another board member does it in an ashtron estates more
important things like that. And so we have a bag
that we staple the calendar too, and we leave it
on your worch for you to collect items with your
with your family to help stock our storem shelves.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
And you can get more information about this said pantryplusmore
dot org and also look for them out on social media.
Just a couple of quick numbers. Since twenty sixteen, they've
helped more than twelve hundred students every month and distributed
more than three hundred and fifty thousand pounds of food
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families in need. Those are some pretty eye popping numbers,
and I'm sure that they're not getting any better, are they, Amanda, No.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
That's correct, especially with the delay in Snap benefits. We
have an increase in most of our programs, which includes
you know, our in school pantries, our Saturday distributions. We
do outish facilitator requests, which is kind of emergency needs
that social workers help us coordinate. And in October we've
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seen one hundred and fifty five percent increase, and in
our Saturday distributions we have seen a fifty six in
percent increase, which really means that people are struggling. And
I think just it's important to note that just because
Snap benefits are getting reinstated, people still have to apply,
which is complicated and also the delayed distribution likely means
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that many of these food and secure folks have put
off paying other important bills to try to feed their families.
So the effects of this are really going to ripple
into the next you know, several months, we expect. So
the Advent Calendar is really a way for us to
get families that want to help involved. You know, it's
a really kid friendly event. You know, we've had families
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you know, you have your elf on the shelf. Instead
of the elf being naughty, the elf is kind of
like a do good elf and tell his friends, and
the elf brings an item from the Advent Calendar every night,
and kids seem to really really like that. So it's
a way for the community to kind of get get
involved in another way to help us. And of course
the best way to follow us is through our Facebook page.
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We have real time updates on there. Feel free to
message us or email us and so at pantryplusmore dot
org we can supply the bags and help pick up
if you need assistance.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Hey, you know what I saw your the promotion for
the Advent Calendar there on Facebook. Is there a place
out there on the web where folks can dial it
up and maybe print it out and get their own
bag and do it.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Absolutely. Yeah. So we'll be posting the Advent calendar which
you can print and do it yourself. And we're also
for the first time going to have wish lists both
on Walmart and Amazon, so if you're a click to
your cart type of person, we'll have avenues to help
you do that as well.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Okay, good now, Hey tell us if you could. We've
got Amanda Balliard with us with Pantry plus More. You
guys are very very active in the school system and
you've got connections on the Board of Education.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Tell us what you're doing in the schools.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Absolutely so. Our program that started the pantry is our
in school pantry. We're in ten schools across the county
and that is stocked by an in school by a
Pantry plus More rep and it works with the school
and it's based on, you know, really how the school
wants to operate it. But put the Pantry plus More
provides all the items in there, so a lot of
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it's food. School supplies high gie items, you know, again
referring back to our mission, if we want to eliminate
those obstacles that can make it difficult for a child
to focus in school, and as we know, and education
is the pathway out of poverty. So our hope is
that by helping these kids have the essumptions they need,
they can be more focused on learning instead of you know,
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embarrassment or hunger. And with the in school pantries, students
can pick things anonymously as much as they want and
we do not track it. So it's really important for
us that kids so comfortable using them and kind of
to take away that stigma of poverty.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Okay, great pantry plusmore dot org gives the website you
can get more information. There is there a phone number
you could leave with us, Samanda.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
I think the best way really is to message us
on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Okay, absolutely, They've got a great Facebook presence there Pantry
plus more on the Facebook platform. Hey, Amanda, you can
also oh go please go ahead.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
I was just going to say you could also email
us at ins at pantryplusmore dot org.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Okay, all right, excellent.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Anything else that you'd like for us to know, Amanda.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
No, we just really appreciate you giving us the opportunity
to talk to the community.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Absolutely, and you take care of yourself, have a good day.
Keep up the good work, you too, Mike. Thank you, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You take care.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It's ninety one right now, clouds and forty one degrees
in Morgantown. When we come back, gonna spend a few
minutes with the Voice of the Clay Hotel CBS get
a preview of their game coming up this weekend.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
It's next on Talk of the Town.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
AM fourteen forty FM one oh four point five WAJR.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
five eight two fivey five. This is the Talk of
the Town.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Good Thursday morning. It's nine thirty five, clouds and forty
one degrees. In the hot seat, we've got the Voice
of the Clay Hotel CBS, Ethan Collins, Ethan, good morning.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
How are you.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
I'm doing good, Mike? How are you this morning?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Hey, I'm doing good. Okay, let's get right down to business.
The opponent is Work County. When is the kickoff?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
It is at four o'clock, so it'll be dark by
the sad and quarter, which it's weird to feel like,
but yeah, it's three hours after the Morgantown Spring Mills
game kicks off on Saturday, at one, So we're gonna
kind of have a high school football double header on Saturday,
which should be fun.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Okay, now give us a Clavetael injury report, please.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
There's nothing to report.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
That's the That's one of the benefits of this team
is that they've stayed healthy. They've really avoided the injury bug.
We've had a few knocks here and there. I know,
you know, with high school you always got to worry
about illness kind of going through a school and stuff
like that. I know, uh, and we're getting to that
kind kind of time of the year. But nothing really
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to report. I think everybody is staying is staying healthy
this year, which, like I say, is one of the
best things about this team is the ability that they've
been able to stay healthy.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And what can you tell us about the health of
the wort County squad As far as I know, there's
not a lot to report there.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
I'm not as connected with that team as I am
with my own in the Cleptel CBS, but they they've
kind of had an interchange a little bit in tailback recently.
One of their fullbacks kind of got hurt early in
the year and they've limited his carries. He only plays
on one side of the ball now, and they've kind
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of interchanged those tailbacks out. So maybe you might see
a little bit of a difference in work County, but
that's not really their game. I guess I can just
go ahead and give you a little scouting report on
Wark County their quarterback, Tyler Smith. My best way to
describe him is he seems like almost a Johnny Manziel
esque in the pocket. He runs around, throws the ball
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on the run with really good accuracy. They like to
throw the ball deep down the field, but he risks
that is correct. But he is the engine that makes
the car of the Work County Tigers run. Now, nobody's
really been able to, I guess, stop him. Some teams
have contained him, and by containing I mean just keep
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him in that pocket, force him to run backwards. The
good news is is that pretty much every opponent that
Kley Botel has played, you've kind of gotten a little
bit of a difference in style that they've played. In
each opponent, we've played a quarterback like this who likes
to run around. And it was against Oak Glennon. Now
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they were a running team. They weren't more of a
passing team. But the way that they did it is
that they didn't care about getting to the quarterback. They
cared about forcing him back and keep back pedaling, keep backpedaling,
and five yard passes turned into forty yard passes for him.
And I guess the name of the game is is
that almost an incomplete pass.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
This is as good as a sack. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And I get what you mean, because when you get
a quarterback, it's kind of like a water bug.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's really very difficult to try to control.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
My color commentator called the one that.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
We played who was like this before, he called him
a gnat okay, which I think is a good description
of that quarterback. Now, this quarterback is more like a mosquito.
He's kind of long, lanky and skinny. But you know,
he's their senior leader and he certainly makes that offense go.
And they've got a couple good receivers too. They've got
two really big guys that just kind of catch it
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and are able to get maybe two or three yards
after the catch. And then they have a freshman receiver
named Andrew Limley who's really really fast. He really takes
the top off the defense and he's lined up in
the slot, which makes it difficult to cover on the
defensive end. So the CBS are going to have a
little bit of their hands full. It's certainly a team
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that can give them a difficult challenge, which once again
we always talk about this in the playoffs. Each opponent
is going to get significantly harder as you go along.
I mean, this is the playoffs, this is where this
is where men become or boys become men. I guess
I should say, and but you kind of get a
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little bit of a challenge here. I don't think a
lot of people, including myself, expected Work.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
County to get past Saint Mary's.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
They are the number eleven seeds, so they pulled off
the upset in the first round. But at the same time, though,
as I've said, the Claybtel CBS have faced a tough schedule.
They faced opponents like this before, so I trust coaching staff.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I think they'll be prepared.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, So using this season as a volume of reference
in your estimation, what Clay Betel players will we be
talking about Monday morning that we're outstanding that instrumental in
maybe another playoff win.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
Hopefully that's actually a really good question on the defensive
end for Work County CBS. On the offensive end, I
thought the biggest area that the CBS could exploit, and
they did this kind of last week, is run the
ball and you get use the offensive line advantage that
the CBS have had pretty much all season to kind
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of carry themselves in into the promised Land. I guess
you should say their leading tailback is Caleb Paul. He
just passed over a thousand yard this season, one thousand
and eighty six yards. But they don't just have one
bell Coal. They have three guys who can really carry
the ball at a significant margin. Their quarterback Corey Cohen
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can keep it himself. They do quarterback design runs with
an an balance formation. Caleb Paul, like I say, is
kind of their bell Coal. And then you have their
I don't even really want to call him a backup
because that doesn't do him justice. The other tailback, Caleb Snodgrass.
He's kind of a thunder to Caleb Haul's lightning. I
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guess you could call it my color commentator, who you
know one of the part timers. Jonathan Edwards compared them
to Jamiir gibbson David Montgomer in the backfield. Caleb Snogress
is kind of that. David Montgomery, the short yardage package
really bounces off tackles really well. I expect him to
have just as good of a game, maybe even better
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than Caleb Paul with his ability to break tackles the
way that he can.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Okay, now let's just wipe all the x's and o's
off the table. Tell me how important is this season
for Clayvitills.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
They've never done this before.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
Well, they've done it once, but it was in twenty fourteen,
and that's the furthest they've ever made it into the playoffs,
and that was the semi final. So if you win
on Saturday, it will be considered considered I don't know
how good you want to say this, but if a
win on Saturday, it will be tied for the greatest
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season in footballs in the school's history, most amount of
wins in a season. But at the same time, I
know these kids well enough to say that they're taking
it one week at a time, and you know they're
not looking at the records or anything like that, because
if you look ahead, Work County can beat you. They
can certainly do that.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Well, we're getting close on time. Okay, Aaron La He's
in his second year. Is this a blessing or a curse?
Is this a trend or is he the beneficiary of
a great class.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
I think a little bit of both.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
He has a senior class that's benefited having half of
their time under him and half of their time under
Ryan Wilson. Ryan Wilson's a legend over in the Blacksville area,
or Leapoe played under him. I think he's learned a
lot in his first season. He's got a great support
staff around him of veterans and young guys that are enthusiastic.
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I think he's just brought a new influx of energy
into that program that maybe weren't we weren't seeing in
years past. And players are buying into the system, and
that's the most important thing that you need.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
That's great to hear. Good times out in Blacksville. Absolutely
have a great call. All right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Enjoy your Friday.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Yeah, I've had a couple of Fridays off.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
It's been nice.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
All right, take care of yourself even thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Mike nine point fifty four will be back to put
the wraps on things after this. On top of the
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threeh four now. Earlier this week, your Community Foundation, well
they served mont Harrison, Marion, Preston and Taylor counties. Tuesday night,
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they celebrated Community Foundation Week by awarding three hundred thousand
dollars to area agencies focused on making life better for
many throughout that multi county area. A president and CEO
Patti Showers Ryan. She is going to join us with
all those details at nine point fifteen. Also helping in
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the community, that would be pantry plus more. They have
a new way that you can help this holiday season,
the Reverse Advent calendar. I think they did it last year,
so maybe it's not brand new. But Amanda Balliard she'll
join us at nine point thirty and we'll get details
about how that program works. Let's hit a couple of
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headlines and then we'll dive right in. Well, no details
have been released, but we know the two miners hospitalized
then one other hurt in the Leverage mine in Marion
County Wednesday morning. Two pieces of equipment reportedly collided at
nine forty two. No other details have been released. Now
the two miners are being treated at JW. Ruby Memorial
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Hospital in Morgantown for unspecified injuries. And believe it or not,
today is the anniversary of the Farmington mine disaster. Was
on this day at five.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Thirty a m.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That there was an explosion large enough to be felt
in the city of Fairmont, just about twelve miles away.
Let's see the miners. Twenty one miners were able to
escape the mines, seventy eight were still trapped. All who
were unable to escape perished, and the bodies of nineteen
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the dead were never recovered. The cause of the explosion
never determined. The accident served as a catalyst for many
new laws that were in act to protect miners of
Farmington Number nine Memorial. Don't know if you've been there,
I have you ought to check it out. Bear's name
of the men who died. It's located at the entrance
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of the Flat Run Road there in Mannington, West Virginia.
MUB crews. Well, they're working on green Bag Road today.
Might be an important traffic note for you. It's down
to one lane at Classics Restaurant or Deckers Creek Boulevard.
That's for paving and they'll be working there until just
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about four o'clock this afternoon. Of the United Way of
mount and Preston Counties they will assume operations on Scott Avenue.
It's Hazel's House of Hope. Former Catholic Charities leader doctor
Jessica Thompson. She'll be the point of contact for the
United United Way and the leader of that.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Facility and WVU Medicine.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
They're expanding into the southwestern region of the Keystone State.
WVEU Health System announced yesterday they will merge with Independence Health.
They operate five hospitals in the Pittsburgh area. WVU Medicine
President and CEO Albert Wright says they'll invest eight hundred
million dollars over five years to improve those facilities and
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that deal should close October first next year, pending regulatory approval.
And just an important traffic note also, if you're out
in the county, the doh they've had to make emergency
or they are in the process of making emergency repairs
to a bridge.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Out in the county.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The one lane bridge is on Birchfield Run Road near Morgantown.
Let's see the Tuesday evening, I believe an overweight truck
partially fell through the deck. Those repairs should be completed
within the next thirty days. And it is a WVU
Win Me's Education Day basketball game this morning. It'll be
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over at Hope Coliseum, a Battle of the Mountaineers the
wv you will take on Appalachian State. That tip off
is at ten fifteen this morning. That's a look at
a couple of headlines. When we come back, we'll welcome
President and CEO of your Community Foundation, Patty Showers, Ryan
to the program. It's coming up next on Talk of
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the Town AM fourteen forty FM one oh four point
five WAJR.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Now back to the Talk of the Town.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Good Thursday morning, Cloud's forty one degrees in the University City.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Glad that you're with us in studio.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We've got the president and CEO of your Community Foundation,
Patty Showers. Ryan.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Hey, Patty, good morning and really good to see.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Good morning, Mike. Thank you for inviting me, please to
be here.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's a pleasure to have you here. Now it is
Community Foundation Week. Let's start right there, Patty. Why is
it important to celebrate Community Foundation Week?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
It's there are, believe it or not, over eight hundred
community foundations across the country and still every day we're
educating people about the great work that we're able to
do to give back in the community. So we're a
nonprofit of five oh one c three charity and we're
able to manage donations from community members and we invest those.
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We don't spend the donations, we invest them, and that
way they're able to support the community long term imperpetuity
in the form of grants and scholarships, So it's just
really important. It allows us to have a week to
really shine and tell our story about all the great
work that we're able to give back in the community
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thanks to very generous donors.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
As a member of the media, I've had the opportunity
to watch your work and the fruits of your labor.
You might say things like providing a new stove in
a home, mech classroom here in a local school, to
providing seed money to start a drone club for a
group of elementary students, and even I think there was
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another group where there was some seed money provided to
start a classroom library.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Absolutely, it sounds like you're talking about our educator minigrants,
which we did like those provide again this year and
they have been just taken off with our educators. They
write such fantastic applications and it really isn't an initiative.
Have to give a shout out to our board of
directors because we're using our unrestricted funds donations that donors
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have given us and said, you know what, you know
what's best and what's needed in the community. You determine
how to use these awards and we did that again
this year, our Board of Directors actually said use them
for educator mini grants, which really came out of the pandemic.
We saw a lot of learning loss in twenty twenty
two and that.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Was our first year.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
This is now the third year making those educator mini grants,
and we've awarded over one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
back to our five county region for educators in the
area who are doing just outstanding projects and programs that
our students benefit from.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Now, those five counties happened to be Harrison, Marion, Mann,
Preston and Taylor Counties and on Tuesday night they came
to the Hotel Morgan to award three hundred thousand dollars
in scholarships.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, it's a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
It was actually grant funding.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
We do scholarships too, but that is really what we
do in the springtime. So this fall and just like
you said.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
On Tuesday night press release.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Oh okay, I can give you the new one, but yeah,
three hundred thousand dollars is the correct number. Actually, that
was similar to our scholarship awards. These are our grant
funds that we awarded at the Hotel Morgan and we
were celebrating the final day of National Community Foundation Week,
and I'm really happy to say.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
We were able to double the distribution.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Of grant funding that we did from last year in
November to this year. And that's really a result of
so many donors giving to our Impact fund, our unrestricted
funds are now we're seeing the fruits of those labors
that were able to use those distributions, and in addition,
a lot of our donor advisors partner with us as well,
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and we're able to help give back to the community
that way with their giving. And in addition, we had
some estate gifts that came through the last couple of
years to ladies that passed away unfortunately, but they're real
passionate about animal welfare and created very large endowments with
YCF that will continue in perpetuity and we will be
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able to continue making grants to animal welfare charities.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I've got the right press release now, and I apologize.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Oh it's okay, on.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
The same page with you now, But just to give
the listeners an idea of what an impact the foundation makes.
The grants range anywhere from three hundred and twenty five
dollars all the way up to twenty five thousand went
to seventy six local charitable organizations. So that low figure
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of three hundred and twenty five dollars give us an
idea of what kind of causes we're helping there, because
I bet they're just as important.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Absolutely, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, it's a lot of the educators that come to us,
and I think that we might all be familiar that
sometimes our educators want to improve their classrooms and they're
ending up using their own money, and we've really encouraged
them to apply for a grant through our educator minigrants.
So sometimes those are funding things like the classroom rug
for reading time, or maybe we see a lot of
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requests for fidgety type of things for the classroom to
help students. You know, they might need to fidget and
be moving around a little bit, but we still want
them learning and hearing from their educator. And these are
things that the educators have asked us to fund for
them in their classrooms to keep learning on track with
those students. So sometimes it's not a lot of money,
but it really, like you said, it really can go
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a long way.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
When I was in school, that fidget toy was a
ruler and I didn't have it. Yeah, well I got it, yeah,
but I didn't hold it. Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Now, do you find that in every grant cycle that
maybe the number of applications that you get, does it grow?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I wish we could fund every grant that we received,
but if there's never enough funding to do that, and
so we have an amazing group of volunteers who help
us review all the grant applications we receive. It's quite
an undertaking and you absolutely want to fund them all,
but unfortunately just not enough dollars to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah. And I would imagine that there are a lot
of organizations when they see a press release like this
go out and they look at all the people that
got grants are probably scratching their heads and wondering, you know, well,
how in the world did I not find out about
this until now?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
And we really try hard to get the message out
and we have a I will say that if anyone's
interested in the future learning about the things that YCF does.
We do have an email distribution list, We have social
media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. We try to
do press releases and just communicate and have people like
you Mike, you invite us to do talks with media,
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which we really appreciate to help the public learn more
about community foundations not here at home and you know,
across the United States.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Okay, now talk to us about the third annual Your
Community Foundation.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Billy Coffin daff Oh, that's such a nice award.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
We received an endowment to recognize volunteer leadership at Your
Community Foundation and invested those funds and every year there's
a distribution from that. And so one of those volunteer
leaders that was really important to the organization was Billy Coffindaffer. He,
as you may know, passed away a couple of years
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ago at the age of ninety five, just provided so
much service to the community and it was just this
is just a nice way to honor and recognize him.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
So each year we.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Select a nonprofit that demonstrates forward thinking vision and strength
and governance. Those were two criteria that were important to
Billy Coffin Daffer. And this year we selected our board
of directors chose Food for Preston, which is a nonprofit
in Preston County that is working with fifteen food pantries
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doing outstanding work. I believe they're celebrating their fortieth anniversary
this year, so they receive a one thousand dollars grant
from YCI. And then in addition, we were able to
surprise Tammy Laney this year. We're gonna put a billboard
up in Kingwood at the Walmart of a video billboard
just to congratulate Food for Preston and Tammy Laney for
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her hard work and as well as their board members.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That is well deserved, there is no doubt. Tell us
about some of the other grants that you'd like to
highlight that were awarded Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, Mike, I'm always trying not to highlight too many
grants because I leave people out and I don't want
to offend anybody but Laurie but Biltso and I had
this conversation in our office yesterday that you might ask
that question, so I have two quick examples. She was
really excited this year because we saw one of our
former scholarship recipients who went to college and got an education,
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got their education in music, and came back, got employed
in the school system in Preston County and is now
applying for grant funding for music education to benefit students
in Preston County. So it was really full circle to
see that student receive one of our scholarships and now
make a request as an educator for grant funds. So
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that was really nice to see that and also support
music in the arts and school, which is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
That is wonderful. That's a great story.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
And then the other one we love seeing this year
was just kind of new for us and is in
Harrison County. A high school senior applied for a grant
in collaboration with her teacher and received funding.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
For her school as well.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
So we thought that was a really wonderful partnership to
see now that the students are getting the experience in
grant writing and working with their teacher, and that we
were able to fund their project as well. And that
student in particular as a high school senior, and she's
working with students in the middle school.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Wow, that's great. That's great. Okay, So rather than focus
on grants, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
What do we need to do to get organized to
apply for a grant?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
That's a good question. So if you're we try to
keep our teacher mini grant application very simple intentionally because
we don't we know, teachers are busy and grant writing
is not something they do every day, so we want
to keep it pretty simple for them, and it's just
knowing what your project, what is your project and having
a budget to go with it. How much is that
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going to cost, how are you going to implement it,
and what's how are you going to measure the impact?
Which is important with any grant that you know you
apply for it is why why do you need the
funding and what are you going to do with the
funds and the outcome of that. If you're a nonprofit
applying for a grant, it gets a little bit more.
We ask a little bit more information. We might need
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to know your board of directors, you need to demonstrate
you have a budget for your organization, be in compliance
with the State of West Virginia, Secretary of State West Virginia,
and then also the irs. So we we do make
sure all of those things are in line kind of
what we would call the basics with running a nonprofit
organization and then tell us about your you know, we
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ask them, the nonprofits to tell us about what is
you want to do with the funds And it's the
same thing where you're saying you know, sometimes it's only
a five hundred dollars grant and sometimes it's a twenty
five thousand dollars grant. But a little bit of money
or a lot of money, you know, it goes a
long way. And we try to just help out. And
I will say that we're not you know, we are
not able to fund every grant that we receive. So
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we do also try to work really hard by reaching
out to other funders in the community that may have
funds available that we cannot provide. So we try to
keep a collaboration and network of other foundations or corporate
corporate funders even that may be looking for ways to
give back in the community and reach out to them
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if there's something that we can't do but maybe somebody
else can.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Okay, So what's the big the next big date on
the YCF calendar.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Oh gosh, we are wrapping up twenty twenty five and
making these distributions and then quickly turning things around to
put on get ready for our scholarships. So that's the
next thing that happens for us is in January, we
will make scholarship applications available on our website for students
to begin applying for scholarships that are awarded.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
In May, Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And that website just happens to be ycfwv dot org.
It's very easy to get around website. You won't have
any trouble there. Patty, how can we get in touch
with you maybe if somebody would like to give you
a call.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Our phone number is three zero four two nine six
three four three three, and we also have our website
which you mentioned, y cfwv dot org. And our email
is really easy. It's info I NFO at ycfwv dot org.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Okay, perfect, what Patty, really do appreciate you coming in
and appreciate the work that you and Laurie do in
the community.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Good Thursday mornings.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Clouds forty one in the University City Metro News. Aci
Weather says today it is going to be a fall
like day, clouds and a high have fifty two degrees
West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Five to one.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
One is reporting your crash at Bunner Ridge and Sawmill Roads.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Avoid that area if you can. And on the phone.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
We've got Amanda Balliard from Pantry Plus More. Amanda, good morning,
glad to have you on board.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
How are you.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
I'm good, Mike, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Appreciate it absolutely, Okay, the Reverse Advent Calendar tell us
how it works and who are we helping?
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Sure, so regarding who we help with this, Pantry plus
More is a five O one C three nonprofit that
works to eliminate obstacles that inhibit a child's ability to learn,
and a big piece of that is food and security
and one four children in the county are food and secure,
which means that they don't know where their next meal
is coming from. So the idea of the Reverse Advent
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Calendar is to have an item a day that you
purchase and you can put in a bag for us
and it follows the calendar and something that you can
do with your kids, and it helps stalk our our
storem shelves with our most needed items. Okay, So we
have a calendar and we take this to communities. I
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know that we're doing what we do it in South Park, Reenmont.
Another board member does it in an ashtron estates more
important things like that. And so we have a bag
that we staple the calendar too, and we leave it
on your worch for you to collect items with your
with your family to help stock our storem shelves.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
And you can get more information about this said pantryplusmore
dot org and also look for them out on social media.
Just a couple of quick numbers. Since twenty sixteen, they've
helped more than twelve hundred students every month and distributed
more than three hundred and fifty thousand pounds of food
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families in need. Those are some pretty eye popping numbers,
and I'm sure that they're not getting any better, are they, Amanda, No.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
That's correct, especially with the delay in Snap benefits. We
have an increase in most of our programs, which includes
you know, our in school pantries, our Saturday distributions. We
do outish facilitator requests, which is kind of emergency needs
that social workers help us coordinate. And in October we've
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seen one hundred and fifty five percent increase, and in
our Saturday distributions we have seen a fifty six in
percent increase, which really means that people are struggling. And
I think just it's important to note that just because
Snap benefits are getting reinstated, people still have to apply,
which is complicated and also the delayed distribution likely means
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that many of these food and secure folks have put
off paying other important bills to try to feed their families.
So the effects of this are really going to ripple
into the next you know, several months, we expect. So
the Advent Calendar is really a way for us to
get families that want to help involved. You know, it's
a really kid friendly event. You know, we've had families
(22:41):
you know, you have your elf on the shelf. Instead
of the elf being naughty, the elf is kind of
like a do good elf and tell his friends, and
the elf brings an item from the Advent Calendar every night,
and kids seem to really really like that. So it's
a way for the community to kind of get get
involved in another way to help us. And of course
the best way to follow us is through our Facebook page.
(23:03):
We have real time updates on there. Feel free to
message us or email us and so at pantryplusmore dot
org we can supply the bags and help pick up
if you need assistance.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Hey, you know what I saw your the promotion for
the Advent Calendar there on Facebook. Is there a place
out there on the web where folks can dial it
up and maybe print it out and get their own
bag and do it.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Absolutely. Yeah. So we'll be posting the Advent calendar which
you can print and do it yourself. And we're also
for the first time going to have wish lists both
on Walmart and Amazon, so if you're a click to
your cart type of person, we'll have avenues to help
you do that as well.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Okay, good now, Hey tell us if you could. We've
got Amanda Balliard with us with Pantry plus More. You
guys are very very active in the school system and
you've got connections on the Board of Education.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Tell us what you're doing in the schools.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Absolutely so. Our program that started the pantry is our
in school pantry. We're in ten schools across the county
and that is stocked by an in school by a
Pantry plus More rep and it works with the school
and it's based on, you know, really how the school
wants to operate it. But put the Pantry plus More
provides all the items in there, so a lot of
(24:26):
it's food. School supplies high gie items, you know, again
referring back to our mission, if we want to eliminate
those obstacles that can make it difficult for a child
to focus in school, and as we know, and education
is the pathway out of poverty. So our hope is
that by helping these kids have the essumptions they need,
they can be more focused on learning instead of you know,
(24:47):
embarrassment or hunger. And with the in school pantries, students
can pick things anonymously as much as they want and
we do not track it. So it's really important for
us that kids so comfortable using them and kind of
to take away that stigma of poverty.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Okay, great pantry plusmore dot org gives the website you
can get more information. There is there a phone number
you could leave with us, Samanda.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
I think the best way really is to message us
on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Okay, absolutely, They've got a great Facebook presence there Pantry
plus more on the Facebook platform. Hey, Amanda, you can
also oh go please go ahead.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
I was just going to say you could also email
us at ins at pantryplusmore dot org.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Okay, all right, excellent.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Anything else that you'd like for us to know, Amanda.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
No, we just really appreciate you giving us the opportunity
to talk to the community.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Absolutely, and you take care of yourself, have a good day.
Keep up the good work, you too, Mike. Thank you, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You take care.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It's ninety one right now, clouds and forty one degrees
in Morgantown. When we come back, gonna spend a few
minutes with the Voice of the Clay Hotel CBS get
a preview of their game coming up this weekend.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
It's next on Talk of the Town.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
AM fourteen forty FM one oh four point five WAJR.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
five eight two fivey five. This is the Talk of
the Town.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Good Thursday morning. It's nine thirty five, clouds and forty
one degrees. In the hot seat, we've got the Voice
of the Clay Hotel CBS, Ethan Collins, Ethan, good morning.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
How are you.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
I'm doing good, Mike? How are you this morning?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Hey, I'm doing good. Okay, let's get right down to business.
The opponent is Work County. When is the kickoff?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
It is at four o'clock, so it'll be dark by
the sad and quarter, which it's weird to feel like,
but yeah, it's three hours after the Morgantown Spring Mills
game kicks off on Saturday, at one, So we're gonna
kind of have a high school football double header on Saturday,
which should be fun.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Okay, now give us a Clavetael injury report, please.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
There's nothing to report.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
That's the That's one of the benefits of this team
is that they've stayed healthy. They've really avoided the injury bug.
We've had a few knocks here and there. I know,
you know, with high school you always got to worry
about illness kind of going through a school and stuff
like that. I know, uh, and we're getting to that
kind kind of time of the year. But nothing really
(27:42):
to report. I think everybody is staying is staying healthy
this year, which, like I say, is one of the
best things about this team is the ability that they've
been able to stay healthy.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And what can you tell us about the health of
the wort County squad As far as I know, there's
not a lot to report there.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
I'm not as connected with that team as I am
with my own in the Cleptel CBS, but they they've
kind of had an interchange a little bit in tailback recently.
One of their fullbacks kind of got hurt early in
the year and they've limited his carries. He only plays
on one side of the ball now, and they've kind
(28:22):
of interchanged those tailbacks out. So maybe you might see
a little bit of a difference in work County, but
that's not really their game. I guess I can just
go ahead and give you a little scouting report on
Wark County their quarterback, Tyler Smith. My best way to
describe him is he seems like almost a Johnny Manziel
esque in the pocket. He runs around, throws the ball
(28:45):
on the run with really good accuracy. They like to
throw the ball deep down the field, but he risks
that is correct. But he is the engine that makes
the car of the Work County Tigers run. Now, nobody's
really been able to, I guess, stop him. Some teams
have contained him, and by containing I mean just keep
(29:09):
him in that pocket, force him to run backwards. The
good news is is that pretty much every opponent that
Kley Botel has played, you've kind of gotten a little
bit of a difference in style that they've played. In
each opponent, we've played a quarterback like this who likes
to run around. And it was against Oak Glennon. Now
(29:29):
they were a running team. They weren't more of a
passing team. But the way that they did it is
that they didn't care about getting to the quarterback. They
cared about forcing him back and keep back pedaling, keep backpedaling,
and five yard passes turned into forty yard passes for him.
And I guess the name of the game is is
that almost an incomplete pass.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
This is as good as a sack. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And I get what you mean, because when you get
a quarterback, it's kind of like a water bug.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's really very difficult to try to control.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
My color commentator called the one that.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
We played who was like this before, he called him
a gnat okay, which I think is a good description
of that quarterback. Now, this quarterback is more like a mosquito.
He's kind of long, lanky and skinny. But you know,
he's their senior leader and he certainly makes that offense go.
And they've got a couple good receivers too. They've got
two really big guys that just kind of catch it
(30:25):
and are able to get maybe two or three yards
after the catch. And then they have a freshman receiver
named Andrew Limley who's really really fast. He really takes
the top off the defense and he's lined up in
the slot, which makes it difficult to cover on the
defensive end. So the CBS are going to have a
little bit of their hands full. It's certainly a team
(30:46):
that can give them a difficult challenge, which once again
we always talk about this in the playoffs. Each opponent
is going to get significantly harder as you go along.
I mean, this is the playoffs, this is where this
is where men become or boys become men. I guess
I should say, and but you kind of get a
(31:07):
little bit of a challenge here. I don't think a
lot of people, including myself, expected Work.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
County to get past Saint Mary's.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
They are the number eleven seeds, so they pulled off
the upset in the first round. But at the same time, though,
as I've said, the Claybtel CBS have faced a tough schedule.
They faced opponents like this before, so I trust coaching staff.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I think they'll be prepared.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, So using this season as a volume of reference
in your estimation, what Clay Betel players will we be
talking about Monday morning that we're outstanding that instrumental in
maybe another playoff win.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
Hopefully that's actually a really good question on the defensive
end for Work County CBS. On the offensive end, I
thought the biggest area that the CBS could exploit, and
they did this kind of last week, is run the
ball and you get use the offensive line advantage that
the CBS have had pretty much all season to kind
(32:06):
of carry themselves in into the promised Land. I guess
you should say their leading tailback is Caleb Paul. He
just passed over a thousand yard this season, one thousand
and eighty six yards. But they don't just have one
bell Coal. They have three guys who can really carry
the ball at a significant margin. Their quarterback Corey Cohen
(32:29):
can keep it himself. They do quarterback design runs with
an an balance formation. Caleb Paul, like I say, is
kind of their bell Coal. And then you have their
I don't even really want to call him a backup
because that doesn't do him justice. The other tailback, Caleb Snodgrass.
He's kind of a thunder to Caleb Haul's lightning. I
(32:51):
guess you could call it my color commentator, who you
know one of the part timers. Jonathan Edwards compared them
to Jamiir gibbson David Montgomer in the backfield. Caleb Snogress
is kind of that. David Montgomery, the short yardage package
really bounces off tackles really well. I expect him to
have just as good of a game, maybe even better
(33:12):
than Caleb Paul with his ability to break tackles the
way that he can.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Okay, now let's just wipe all the x's and o's
off the table. Tell me how important is this season
for Clayvitills.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
They've never done this before.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
Well, they've done it once, but it was in twenty fourteen,
and that's the furthest they've ever made it into the playoffs,
and that was the semi final. So if you win
on Saturday, it will be considered considered I don't know
how good you want to say this, but if a
win on Saturday, it will be tied for the greatest
(33:47):
season in footballs in the school's history, most amount of
wins in a season. But at the same time, I
know these kids well enough to say that they're taking
it one week at a time, and you know they're
not looking at the records or anything like that, because
if you look ahead, Work County can beat you. They
can certainly do that.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Well, we're getting close on time. Okay, Aaron La He's
in his second year. Is this a blessing or a curse?
Is this a trend or is he the beneficiary of
a great class.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
I think a little bit of both.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
He has a senior class that's benefited having half of
their time under him and half of their time under
Ryan Wilson. Ryan Wilson's a legend over in the Blacksville area,
or Leapoe played under him. I think he's learned a
lot in his first season. He's got a great support
staff around him of veterans and young guys that are enthusiastic.
(34:46):
I think he's just brought a new influx of energy
into that program that maybe weren't we weren't seeing in
years past. And players are buying into the system, and
that's the most important thing that you need.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
That's great to hear. Good times out in Blacksville. Absolutely
have a great call. All right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Enjoy your Friday.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Yeah, I've had a couple of Fridays off.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
It's been nice.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
All right, take care of yourself even thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Mike nine point fifty four will be back to put
the wraps on things after this. On top of the
Town Am fourteen forty F M one oh four point
five W A.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
J R.
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