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Speaker 1 (00:22):
This is the Talk of the Town from Morgantown to Klerksburg.
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
A good Friday morning, over cast guys, and thirty eight
degrees in the University City. Welcome to Talk of the Town.
I'm Mike Notlting. Now you'll find me out on x's,
your news guy and our producer. Today we have the one,
the only, Sophia Wassick. You'll be able to get Sophia
at eight hundred and seven six five eight two five
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five and also our text line that is three four
talk threeh four. Certainly hope to hear from you throughout
the course of the next sixty minutes. Coming up over
that period of time, we'll spend a few of a
few minutes of that time with Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumbull.
She'll step in at just about nine fifteen or thereabouts.
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Got the deputy chief of the Valley Volunteer Fire Department,
Zach Egle. We'll talk to him at nine point thirty
looks like they'll be losing their station in Whitehall. We'll
talk about the circumstances surrounding that and what their next
moves might be to ensure public safety in that area.
Then at nine point forty, we're going to be talking
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to Christian Help and we're going to be talking about
their needs as we get word that the snap benefits
that have been delayed. Maybe the governor's announcement of releasing
one point one million dollar will ease those concerns, but
we'll talk with Christian Help find out what some of
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their needs are at this point. And of course don't
forget Cans for Community that is coming up on November
the seventh. That'll be at the Giant Eagle over at
the University Town Center. We'll talk more about that later,
but right now it is an important milestone through the
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week to Friday, and certainly you deserve every round of
that applause. There is absolutely no doubt. Let's take a
look at a couple of headlines. We had the opportunity
to speak to founder, co founder and CEO of Iconic
Air James Karnes on the Thursday edition of Talk of
(02:48):
the Town. Carnes and local startup Iconic Air have been
acquired by Japanese based Oswayney. What they do is they
have developed a software program that allows energy companies to
track emissions primarily the same way that they would track
their balance sheet things like that. There's more on that
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at WAJR dot com. A state workers, including teachers, would
pay an additional three percent more in health insurance premiums
if a proposal by the PEIA Finance Board is proved.
Now that proposed plan will be the focus of a
discussion at their Finance board meeting next month. If adopted,
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that increase would go into effect next July. First, there
is concern those SNAP benefits will be impacted if federal
government shutdown continues through November. First. Now, Governor Morrissey, he
did announce Thursday he's sending one point one million dollars
in state funds to food banks to help if the
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November SNAP benefits are delayed. Now, a quick program on that.
We have been reaching out well. First off, we reached
out locally to find out exactly what we could from
the Department of Health here in mont County. We were
then directed to the state Department of Health, reached out
to their communications people, and we're trying. We're efforting an
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interview with the State Director of Wick, Heidi Statts. We
haven't been able to confirm that just yet, but we'll
keep you posted. We certainly continue to work on that
effort now. West Virginia State Police Captain Jason Serno, it's
been a couple of minutes with him. Yesterday afternoon identified
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the suspect who was shot and killed by police during
a Tuesday pursuit as Tyrell Stephen White. At pursuit began
when troopers tried to stop White for a minor traffic violation.
He sped away, so Reno says, the troopers and deputies
from the Harrison County Sheriff's Department fired on White after
he got out of the vehicle in the Mountclair area.
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He had evidently made an overt jester gesture that had
threatened to officers, and by the way, he did show
or display a firearm during that pursuit in Harrison County
and Martinsburg. Man's in custody after being arrested by US
Marshalls in Harrison County. Chad Berry, wanted for violating parole
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following a twenty seventeen firearms conviction Acting US Marshall for
the northern part of the state. Terry Morrises. Barry was
spotted in and More Thursday. Then he was arrested after
a vehicle pursuit that ended in the city of Wellsburg.
It's a parade night in the city of Morgantown, so
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you'll want to keep that on your calendar. Starting this afternoon,
just about four thirty five o'clock, you can start to
expect the traffic to intensify. Five o'clock, those typical parade
restrictions will go into effect and the parade will step
off at six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Talking with the vice president of Alumni, Kevin Barry, earlier
this week, this parade looks to be one of the
biggest in the area for the year. So if you're
up for a good parade, you might want to come
to downtown Morgantown tonight. Right now, clouds and thirty seven
degrees in the University city. When we come back, it's
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Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumbull on Talk of the Town AM
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Speaker 2 (11:00):
A good Friday morning, clouds and thirty seven degrees in
the University City and Metro Newszaki Weather says today a
good steady dose of cloudy skies throughout the day in
a high temperature of fifty three degrees in studio. We've
got Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumble. Good morning, Mayor. How are
you doing well, Mike?
Speaker 13 (11:20):
Thanks for having me missed you last week.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yes, I tell you what, it was kind of nice
to have a week off, you know, kinda relax a
little bit.
Speaker 13 (11:30):
As I told you, I'll figure out what that's like
in about two years, maybe maybe got about twenty months
left here.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You know what We're we're going to talk about all
things Morgantown coming up, but real quick, before we do that,
I just wanted to let folks know that this afternoon
at one o'clock, Secretary of State Chris Warner will be
downtown Morgantown and he'll be giving a Centurion Business Award
to Misulo Cleaners. Now that means they've been in business
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for one hundred years, and I'm you know, I wouldn't
want people to think that I've come up with this,
but reading from the press release from the Secretary of State,
he says that West Virginia Centurions have withstood World World Wars,
stock market crashes, the Great Depression, several recessions, military conflicts,
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and pandemics that.
Speaker 13 (12:26):
Loose cleaners several pandemics now right, keeping you clean for
one hundred years. I didn't know about that. I'm happy
you mentioned that I might try to make my way
down there. It'd be great to celebrate them. They've been
a staple of downtown for a long time, absolutely about
one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
About one hundred years. Okay, hey, let's while we're downtown,
let's stay there for a minute. Got a parade downtown tonight.
Looks like there's a nice new parking lot, but unfortunately
it's not yet available.
Speaker 13 (12:56):
Yeah, you should probably stick to one of the garages
if you're going downtown for the parade tonight. That parking
lot is a little overdue, but they did get it paved. Now,
it's all striped. They have some lighting to install, but
hopefully they're still on track to have that done in
the next couple of weeks, right around the beginning of November.
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I hope is the last, the last update I got,
But we all know how that goes changes daily.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I tell you, when you pull up there on Spruce
Street coming around from the funeral home and you're coming
up that grade, that grade, you have an opportunity to
look across that parking lot and it's smoother than I
seventy nine.
Speaker 13 (13:40):
It is gorgeous. It's well paved, well lined. Like I said,
if you're looking at it, you better hope it's daytime
because the lights aren't in yet.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, well, how's the street scape project coming?
Speaker 13 (13:52):
Yesterday the developer that's working on Walnut Street had the
street closed most of the day. There is right up
on the corner now, right in front of Hoot and Howe.
As soon as they're done there, they'll move over to
the other side, and hopefully we're on track to have
that done, you know before we need to plant trees
in the spring and stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, that's good, that's good, and I would hope that,
you know, maybe in a downtown environment. And I know
you can't speak for the contractor, and I sure can't,
but it would appear that if there were a job
or was a job that could be wintered, this would
be one you would think maybe there are a lot
of things that could do during the winter.
Speaker 13 (14:34):
It seems to me that way, But as you mentioned,
I'm not a contractor. We'll see.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That's right, that's right. They're probably begging us not to
say anything else about that.
Speaker 13 (14:44):
Project, right, now I bet they want everyone to stop
paying attention.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, So, but the parade lineup though, folks will start
to move downtown at about four thirty. Parade restrictions will
go into effect at about five, So factor that in
to your commute home from work. If you would, please, Hey,
let's shift gears and talk a little bit about Bowpark.
Speaker 13 (15:07):
Okay. The ice rink opened this week. Hallelujah.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Right.
Speaker 13 (15:11):
That has been a long time project. They voted on
one of the ice drink designs right before I joined
Bowpark seven years ago, eight years ago, and there's been
a lot of changes and price increases and things since then.
But it's a gorgeous facility. I've visited a couple of times.
They're doing a lot more public skate now. A lot
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of the competitive hockey has moved out to Myland Park,
so it gives the community a lot more time to
use our ice rink. We even have some weekend public skates.
They're doing Wednesdays from noon to two fifteen and seven
to nine pm is an adults only public skate which
people have been asking for eighteen and over on Wednesday evenings,
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and then Saturday and Sunday we have a one thirty
to three thirty and Saturday evening from seven to nine.
It's been a long time since we had that kind
of line up. A public skate for the community.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Now walk us through amenities on the inside, concessions, locker rooms,
things like that.
Speaker 13 (16:13):
The locker rooms are still being worked on. Most of
the locker rooms are renovations of the old locker rooms
since we don't have a lot of hockey happening there,
but we still have the ability. We have added two
new exclusive party rooms, so people who want to rent
for a birthday party, the warming room, that little area
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when you first enter has been completely redone. There's a
gas fireplace, a new skate counter, a new admissions counter.
The flow is a little better. Not everyone's trying to
come in through the same set of doors. We'll be
doing the Bowpark bites from Eureka Cafe concession stand. That
worked out really well for us at the summer at
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the pool over the summer, so we're continuing that. And
then you know, all of the mechanicals are new, the
dehumidification unit, the chiller, all of that stuff, heaters, seating,
new boards. We're ready to go.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You know, I heard some folks talk before the renovations
about you know, sometimes there might have been a little
bit too much moisture on the ice or maybe I
don't know that. I think there was a humidity problem
in the building, but that really should all be cured
with because of brand new chiller and everything.
Speaker 13 (17:30):
In the Yeah, there was issues with an old dehumidification
unit and we had had to rent one long term actually,
but now with all of the new mechanicals, that's brand new,
along with the chiller, ready to go.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Okay, Now Marilla Park set to undergo phase two of renovations.
Speaker 13 (17:50):
Yeah, Lower Marilla Park. I'm actually after this supposed to
go and finalize the documentation for the funding for that.
So we're expecting construction should start some maybe demolition not
so much construction. I don't know. They're going to do
a lot of work. Sometime in November. We're gonna be
moving the tennis courts. Will have six brand new tennis courts,
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new pickleball courts, a new skate park. They're going to
make some upgrades to the Marilla Center for programming and rentals,
new basketball and Bopark's first turf field, which is a
huge addition to our programming very nice.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Now, last year when you guys started the pool and
your broke ground, you know, that was kind of stealth
because it was up on the hill and in the
trees and.
Speaker 13 (18:42):
You don't really pass it unless you mean to pass it,
right right.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But I think that this year these are going to
be right up front. People are gonna when you're driving
by on Decker's Creek or or Brockway or pal whatever
you want to call it, Route seven, you're going to
see it.
Speaker 13 (19:01):
Yeah, absolutely there. You're going to notice a lot of
stuff happening in that park. We're hoping it's done well.
The majority of it should be done at the end
of next summer. We were delayed a little bit with
the financing, but it's all in place now ready to go.
And you mentioned the new pool. After the pool season ended,
we had a couple of punch list items that needed
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taken care of and that work is coming to completion
this week or next week as well. There was some
concrete work that had to be done. There were some
slippery areas we had to address, some flooring, just some landscaping,
some last minute things that didn't quite make it right
before the pool opened. But that's all completion now.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Too, Okay, well perfect Now looking ahead is Boat Park?
Are they maybe eyeing another specific park to maybe go
in and make some renovations next or is that still
under discussion.
Speaker 13 (19:56):
No major major projects. I think we're coming to the
end of some of those major projects. We are getting
ready to do some pavilion replacement in Creps Park. We're
adding one to Wiles Hill Park. We're also adding a
maintenance facility and caretakers area to Crep's Park. So you'll
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still be seeing a lot of smaller projects, minor projects
happening throughout the system. We've been kind of banking that
sales tax fund for a little while, and I think
in the next year you're really going to see most
of the improvements of that account that we've been building up.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You know, at the last meeting of Morgantown City Council,
the Morgantown Neighborhood Mosaic project Or Program was introduced. Tell
us a little bit about that.
Speaker 13 (20:51):
That was a baby of Councilor downs. He was very
excited to work on that. The city's been offering some
ats for neighborhood signage and things like that for several years,
but he wanted the ability to help neighborhoods with some
additional projects that they have, whether that's a community garden
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or a mural or their neighborhood sign. So it's a
project where there's a couple of different size grants available
and the neighborhood has to have some matching, whether that's
funding or in kind labor donation kind of things, but
really helping neighborhood associations work on some of those things
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that they would like to do but maybe funding's just
not there. The city Council intends to set aside a
chunk of money in the budget each year, and then
the Neighborhood Coordinating Council, which is made up of the
leaders of each of the neighborhood associations, will take some
submissions and look at projects, kind of rank those and
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make recommendations to the city manager on which projects should
should move forward based on the amount of funding available.
But we're very excited about it, really trying to get
those neighborhood associations feeling like they have great purpose and
utility because people love the neighborhoods in Morgantown and being
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in a neighborhood association really helps push some of those
things forward.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Remember a couple of years ago when we did the
affordable housing study and we went to the meetings and
we put post it notes up on the easels about
ideas that different people.
Speaker 13 (22:27):
Certainly mmmpo's doing that with their traffic study right now.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, well, see when that was going on, members of
the Greenmont Neighborhood Association came down and they were very,
very engaged, and that was really one of the first
neighborhoods I thought of when I saw this program.
Speaker 13 (22:44):
Oh yeah, Greenmont is well organized. I know they have
some plans for a pocket park in their neighborhood up
along White Avenue. So I can't see. I can't wait
to see what that neighborhood comes up with. They've got
some vision over there for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Okay, well, it's homecoming weekend here in the city of Morgantown,
our city on display once again.
Speaker 13 (23:07):
We can't wait to welcome everyone in, put our best
foot forward, and hopefully the Mountaineers deliver for us.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I know that's you know, but I'm going to go
ahead and call when for the Mountaineers this weekend to
think everything is right?
Speaker 13 (23:23):
I hope. So my brother in law sent my husband
and sons some tickets to use. It's my son's birthday
this weekend, so I hope they pull it out for him.
My family will be there.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Absolutely. I do too. Hey, Mayor, I really do appreciate
your time today and I hope you have a great weekend.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
Enjoy the game absolutely, Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Absolutely, take care of yourself. Right now, overcast and thirty
eight degrees in the University City and Metro Newsaki Weather
says it looks like a typical fall mid to late
October day clouds plenty of them and a high temperature
of fifty three degrees. A lot happening across the great
state of West Virginia, and to find out exactly what
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those are, we'll head to the Metro News anchor desk
and find out on the Voice of more Contown one
oh four point five FM and eight M fourteen forty WAJR.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
West Virginia. Metro newsigmed Jeff Jenkins. Not enough votes in
the US Senate to pass a pay bill for some
of the federal workers who are currently working without pay
during the federal government shutdown. US Ander Shelley Moore Capito
says enough Democrats would not agree with the paybill.
Speaker 15 (24:36):
I just think that we would do better to open
the government. We've tried to get appropriations bills going. They
will not do that, and so it's we're stuck in
the mud here because it does take sixty votes.
Speaker 14 (24:47):
Capitol says she is not in favor of eliminating the
required sixty vote threshold. US Center Jim Justice doesn't sound
too worried about an eight million dollar tax lean filed
by the IRS against his family owned companies, Justice telling
reporters Thursday is something that big businesses go through. He
says he doesn't owe the RS. In fact, he says
the RS actually owes him.
Speaker 16 (25:06):
When all this is said and done, I will promise
you to God above that what will happen is we
will Jim will end up with significantly more dollars from
the IRIS than what we owe the IRIS.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Now.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
Justice did not address a one point three million dollar
lean from the state Tax Department in connection with sales
taxes collected at the Greenbrier Resort in Greenbrier Sporting Club
but not remitted to the state. Read more at wv
metro news dot com. A search resuming this morning on
the Guyandt Rivern or Huntington, where a man jumped out
of a car last night fleeing police and jumped into
the river. Police are trying to make a stop along
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US Route sixty in the Guyandot area. You're listening to
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Speaker 14 (26:47):
Stay please releaseing more information about an officer involved shooting
from earlier this week in Harrison County that claimed a
man's life. Captain Jason Serino says Toreil White was from Huntingdon.
He says Harrison County authorities tried to make a stop
on Route twenty Tuesday.
Speaker 18 (27:00):
The minor traffic infraction that just suddenly turned into chase.
I think unbeknownst to the officer there was more going
on with the suspect that he knew at the time.
Speaker 14 (27:11):
Police believe White was dealing drugs. From the Metro News
anchored desk, I'm Jeff Jenkins.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Good Friday morning. It is nine thirty five, overcast and
thirty eight degrees in the University city. Glad you're with
us on the phone. We've got the deputy chief of
the Valley Volunteer Fire Department. Members of that particular organization
got some bad news from the City of Whitehall earlier
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this week. Late last week, Good morning, Zach. How are you.
Speaker 19 (29:01):
Today, good, sir, good, good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Absolutely, it's a pleasure to have you on board now, Zach,
if you would walk the listeners through exactly what was
your set up there in the city of Whitehall.
Speaker 19 (29:16):
Yeah, so VALLEYVFD was established back in nineteen sixty two
for the volunteer fire parmentary in Marion County right along
I seventy nine. Whitehall created a substation I believe it
was back in nineteen ninety two in a substation two
house in the Republic Safety building there. Allegedly one of
our engines and our lighter truck and that sits back
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in the substation building. They're kind of behind Walmart and
the Fairmont Theaters to provide extra fire coverage to our
first two area in the town of white Hall and
strictly a volunteer firehouse too.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Sir, okay, okay, Well, what's the advantage of you being
able to set up shop there?
Speaker 19 (29:56):
Well, the vintage is, of course, you know, we have
a million dollar dollar a one point two million dollar
ladder truck that is sits back in there around that
commercial area, ready to go to any kind of large
commercial fire, any kind of high or low angle rescue.
That ladder truck can be used for that. And we
do have a backup engine one out of three of
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our engines, that one being our third, one of the
oldest ones, but it sits back there two one thousand
gallons of war that does provide fire coverage, fire protection,
fire services to the town and surrounding county.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, We've got the deputy chief of the Value Volunteer
Fire Department, Zach Echile, with us, and now, Zach, if
you could help us understand exactly what happened between the
fire department and the city, because I guess, you know,
just looking at what I'm reading it, I guess it
could be a misunderstanding, but evidently it is not.
Speaker 19 (30:51):
There's no misunderstanding. We were literally all just cleaning up,
trying to We're a department that's not like to collect clutter,
just trying to clean the place up. And of course
we're not staffed. We are one hundred percent volunteer. We
all have full time jobs, families, and just cleaning the
place up. And literally the next day got an email
(31:12):
from the town hall administrator of the council, the town
hall administrator about this and pretty much told us that
we have a thirty day month lee and pretty much
we need to get our start removed from the building
there within the thirty days.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Okay, so what about negotiating with the town, the town
administrator or city council, any conversations at all.
Speaker 19 (31:37):
We haven't spoke to any of them since this. I
did speak to Mayor de France, it's been a couple
of weeks ago. They are holding a workshop meeting November thirty,
six pm at the town Town of Whitehall Public Safety
Building and we'll have some discussions there, respectively, some discussions
(31:59):
to kind of figure out the future of what they
want to do with that building.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Now. Is the Town of why Hall are they starved
for space? Is this maybe? Are they are they looking
to take that over?
Speaker 19 (32:12):
Is that maybe what it is taking it over?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
As for what sir, more off of space space?
Speaker 19 (32:20):
So yeah, so essentially all we have is like a
garage one full drive through garage bay and then another
half a garage bay is literally all we have. And
when I spoke to mister de Francis, he was looking
for some uh some room for the public street department,
the public works department that they have they have a
very large, well outfitted public works department that works at
(32:42):
the Town of white Hall, and I think the mayor
is looking to put some stuff in uh in storage,
you know, out of the roof or under a roof.
I know I don't want to keep a million dollar
fire trucks out of the weather either, And I completely
get what he's saying about his equipment. So that's just
something that will be up for discussion also. Sure.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Okay, now, Zach, what kind of contingencies are you guys
looking at from maybe on the back end of this
thirty day window that you have to work with.
Speaker 19 (33:10):
Yeah, So when I spoke to the mayor about this,
of course nothing allegedly is sentenced done them, because I
don't believe the council was all aware of any of
us either. But our contingency plan like a backup, and
of course we work very well with the City of
Pleasant Valley. Value VFD is very unique. We run a
lot of the county through Marion County. We have the
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City of Pleasant Valley we work for to provide fire protection,
and then the Town of Whitehall also, so we're very unique.
We've been working very well with the mayor City Pleasant
Valley Emily Haddocks on the contingency plan a backup. We
do have a lot of businesses there. Some of them
have some relatively big storage buildings that we can keep
those trucks in, which are about three to four minutes
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down from our main station and Pleasant Valley, to keep
that ladder truck in that engine n a building until
we can get something built bigger, which is looking like
the near future.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Also, now, if you do have to go to Pleasant Valley,
how does that change response times for Whitehall.
Speaker 19 (34:10):
That's a great question because that question has been asked
several times. It does not change anything at all for
our response to the town of Whitehall. If we like
we've been getting vehicle accidents, fire alarm structure fires, anything
like that, that will to happen in the town of
white Hall. Of course, our rescue truck SQUAT twelve, it
was bought by City Pleasant Valley. It is the first
truck to go out the door and it comes out
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of our main station there in Pleasant Valley and then
an engine follows behind it. So realistically, nothing changes in
our fire response time going to our area there in
the town of Whitehall.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Okay, that's good to know. Last last thing I got
for you, Deputy Chief Zach Echo, with Value Volunteer Fire Department.
I'd like to know how many members are in your
department and then talk a little bit about the the
role that you guys play out on the interstate, if
you would.
Speaker 19 (35:04):
Yeah. So, Valley v a D operates with about twenty
twenty volunteers with four officers. We have four line officers
and twenty volunteers, and we run about twelve hundred calls
a year. Out twelve hundred those calls, there's relatively four
hundred vehicle accidents, give or take. We run that interstate
that that's a lot of our bread and butter. It
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runs directly up from Harrison County in themont County and
our first duke cuts off at the one thirty seven there.
But that's a busy stretch for us. And we have
not missed a call yet, you know. And I like
to knockle Wood and stay humble because we are volunteered.
We're not stats. But running the vehicle accents on the interstate,
the vehicle accents in the town of white Hall, whatever
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happens in the county and the state plays in the valley,
keeps us very very busy. Speaking of we were just
banged out for three vehicle accents this morning. We had
one of twelve thirty in the morning, one at five
o'clock in the morning, and one it having around seven
to twenty this morning, all on air state seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Okay, and not surprised. I hate to hear it, but
I'm not.
Speaker 19 (36:06):
Stay off the interstate.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, there you go. Now, last thing, though, Zach, how
much work does Whitehall account for in percentage? Would you
say twenty five percent? Thirty forty? What would that number be?
Speaker 19 (36:19):
Are we talking about call volume there?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Yes, sir, relatively forty? Okay, all right, perfect, Hey, Deputy
Chief Zach Eckle with Value Volunteer Fire Department. Really do
appreciate your time, sir, and I hope you have a
safe day, and you know, stay off the interstate if
you can.
Speaker 19 (36:40):
Absolutely, I appreciate you, and I appreciate you having us
there on your talk show.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Absolutely, take care of yourself.
Speaker 19 (36:46):
All right, you too, sir, you bet you.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Deputy Chief Value Volunteer Fire Department, Zach Eckle. When we
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Speaker 2 (41:27):
Good Friday Morning, Clouds and thirty eight degrees. In studio,
we have the executive director of Christian Help, Colleen Lankford,
and would like to just remind listeners. Coming up on
November seventh, from six am to six pm, WVRC Media
Cares will present Cans for Community. That will be a
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twelve hour food drive at the Giant Eagle at the
University Town Center. This all brought about by the delay
possible delay of Snap benefits brought on by the federal
government shutdown. We've got Colleen in this morning to just
talk a little bit about First, how's everything going over
(42:08):
there on Walnut Street with Christian Help.
Speaker 26 (42:11):
Good morning, Mike. Everything's going pretty well at Christian Help.
We're anxiously awaiting the completion of the streetscape so that
we can open up our side of the street for
a couple of weeks, but generally it's going well.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Okay, Well, that's good. Now, give us an idea. I
guess you recently just had the store back to school
store where folks could pretty much just show up and
get shirts, some I guess, just a set of clothes
for a child. How'd that event go?
Speaker 26 (42:44):
Oh and great? We had let me just check that
one quickly. We had four hundred and eighty two students
from grades K through twelve whose parents came and got
them five outfits, five pair of underwear, five socks, and
a brand new pair of tennis shoes. Went over very well.
We had a week worth of activity and the families
were well supported.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Now, on a monthly basis, give us an idea of
how many families that you do help well.
Speaker 26 (43:11):
It depends upon the type of service they're looking for,
but typically we're looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of
eight thousand shoppers during the course of a year. Last
year it was two hundred and thirty two. In our
food pantry. Were typically focused on individuals. Let's see twelve
(43:33):
hundred and seventy seven households that we served last year.
In the emergency financial services area, we facilitated ninety nine,
seven hundred and thirty six dollars worth of support to
a thousand different families for their utility, rent, prescription and
(43:57):
other financial needs to get them over or whatever situation
might be difficult for them.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Sure, Colleen Langford is with Christian Help, and Colleen wanted
to talk specifically about food insecurity if we could, because
you know, with the delay and the SNAP benefits. It
seems like over the last week, I've heard everything from
you know, people being encouraged not to give out candy
(44:23):
maybe give out food at Halloween, to you know, some
of the things that families are going through. And I'm wondering,
is this media hype or is this real? No, it's real.
Speaker 26 (44:35):
Although I would not recommend giving out cans of vegetables
to children who are trick or treating, I'm sure they
would not like that because halloween's a you know, it's
a cornerstone. It's it's something that you have memories about.
It's not the type of thing that you should.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
You don't want to be a stick in the mud.
Speaker 26 (44:52):
Well, I do want them to memory enjoy the memories
of their childhood. But yeah, food and security is is
very real. In West Virginia. Generally speaking, one in six
individuals qualify for SNAP support, and SNAP support is something
that historically had been one hundred percent federally funded, but
at this point, following the Big Beautiful Bill, it's actually
(45:15):
split between the state and the federal government. Our emergency
funds are tapped, and until yesterday, we didn't know if
the state was going to be able to provide any
support toward the food banks or for the pantries. But
as I understand it, Governor Morrissey has announced an expedite,
an attempt to expedite one point one million dollars worth
(45:36):
of emergency funding two West Virginia food banks. So that'll
be helpful.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
How will that help you?
Speaker 26 (45:42):
Actually, it doesn't really help us. We do not participate
in the Mountaineer Food Bank. Most of our or not
most all of our donations come from the community at large.
There are income restrictions that go along with some of
the food banks that we're not willing to sign up
off on those requirements, and the reason is that we
can't serve the public at large regardless of income if
(46:06):
we do that. So, for example, whenever you are the
qualifications for food bank are very similar to the qualifications
for SNAP, but it's dependent upon certain percentages of federal
poverty level as far as your annual income. Many people
(46:26):
don't qualify for that if you're looking at their actual
annual income. So what Christian Help does is, if you're hungry,
we feed you, and we will give you a food
order every thirty days, depending upon your request for it.
As opposed to what your taxes say you have in
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our pantry service. Typically, what we would see calendar year
twenty four, for example, we served approximately fifty three people
per week. What we have seen recently last week, second
week of October the thirteenth through the seventeenth, we actually
had eighty one individuals that we served. That's a fifty
three percent increase, and the majority of those individuals were
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new to our services. They had never used our pantry
services in the past. So we are seeing a spike
in individual numbers. We're also seeing larger families and coupling
of families whenever they're coming and asking for support. In
West Virginia as a whole. Like I said before, one
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in six individuals qualify for SNAP. We hear frequently that
one in five children are food insecure, but whenever you
look at the overall numbers, sixteen percent of our population
has difficulty, verifiable difficulty in obtaining enough food and nutritional
support for themselves.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
And I think it's important to point out at this
point that Mond County Schools has an enrollment of about
twelve thousand children, and we do know that a substantial
number of those children do experience food insecurity.
Speaker 26 (48:08):
They do, otherwise we wouldn't have a need for pantry
plus and more in the school system.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Very true, Colleen, really do appreciate you coming in today
and we look forward to having you out on sen
November the seventh, that the giant eagle will talk more
than I appreciate that. Thank you, absolutely. You take care
of yourself, Colleen Langford, executive director of Christian Help. Certainly.
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You can drop off donations at two nineteen Walnut Street
or check them out online. You can also email Colleen
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Well, good Friday morning. It is homecoming weekend here in
the University City and coming up today at the Mountain
Lair beginning at eleven am. From eleven am until four,
it will be Mountaineer Friday out in front of the
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be passing out some buttons, They'll have some sports team
posters available, some free snacks and music. Food trucks will
also be on location, and the Mountaineer mascot he'll join
the fun plus WVU Bookstor is going to have a
pop up shop where you can get all the cold
Rush gear. Before kickoff, and by the way, kickoff is Saturday,
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six pm miland Pushcar Stadium against TCU WVU, shocks the
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A good Friday morning, over cast guys, and thirty eight
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I'm Mike Notlting. Now you'll find me out on x's,
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five and also our text line that is three four
talk threeh four. Certainly hope to hear from you throughout
the course of the next sixty minutes. Coming up over
that period of time, we'll spend a few of a
few minutes of that time with Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumbull.
She'll step in at just about nine fifteen or thereabouts.
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Got the deputy chief of the Valley Volunteer Fire Department,
Zach Egle. We'll talk to him at nine point thirty
looks like they'll be losing their station in Whitehall. We'll
talk about the circumstances surrounding that and what their next
moves might be to ensure public safety in that area.
Then at nine point forty, we're going to be talking
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to Christian Help and we're going to be talking about
their needs as we get word that the snap benefits
that have been delayed. Maybe the governor's announcement of releasing
one point one million dollar will ease those concerns, but
we'll talk with Christian Help find out what some of
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their needs are at this point. And of course don't
forget Cans for Community that is coming up on November
the seventh. That'll be at the Giant Eagle over at
the University Town Center. We'll talk more about that later,
but right now it is an important milestone through the
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week to Friday, and certainly you deserve every round of
that applause. There is absolutely no doubt. Let's take a
look at a couple of headlines. We had the opportunity
to speak to founder, co founder and CEO of Iconic
Air James Karnes on the Thursday edition of Talk of
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the Town. Carnes and local startup Iconic Air have been
acquired by Japanese based Oswayney. What they do is they
have developed a software program that allows energy companies to
track emissions primarily the same way that they would track
their balance sheet things like that. There's more on that
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at WAJR dot com. A state workers, including teachers, would
pay an additional three percent more in health insurance premiums
if a proposal by the PEIA Finance Board is proved.
Now that proposed plan will be the focus of a
discussion at their Finance board meeting next month. If adopted,
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that increase would go into effect next July. First, there
is concern those SNAP benefits will be impacted if federal
government shutdown continues through November. First. Now, Governor Morrissey, he
did announce Thursday he's sending one point one million dollars
in state funds to food banks to help if the
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November SNAP benefits are delayed. Now, a quick program on that.
We have been reaching out well. First off, we reached
out locally to find out exactly what we could from
the Department of Health here in mont County. We were
then directed to the state Department of Health, reached out
to their communications people, and we're trying. We're efforting an
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interview with the State Director of Wick, Heidi Statts. We
haven't been able to confirm that just yet, but we'll
keep you posted. We certainly continue to work on that
effort now. West Virginia State Police Captain Jason Serno, it's
been a couple of minutes with him. Yesterday afternoon identified
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the suspect who was shot and killed by police during
a Tuesday pursuit as Tyrell Stephen White. At pursuit began
when troopers tried to stop White for a minor traffic violation.
He sped away, so Reno says, the troopers and deputies
from the Harrison County Sheriff's Department fired on White after
he got out of the vehicle in the Mountclair area.
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He had evidently made an overt jester gesture that had
threatened to officers, and by the way, he did show
or display a firearm during that pursuit in Harrison County
and Martinsburg. Man's in custody after being arrested by US
Marshalls in Harrison County. Chad Berry, wanted for violating parole
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following a twenty seventeen firearms conviction Acting US Marshall for
the northern part of the state. Terry Morrises. Barry was
spotted in and More Thursday. Then he was arrested after
a vehicle pursuit that ended in the city of Wellsburg.
It's a parade night in the city of Morgantown, so
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you'll want to keep that on your calendar. Starting this afternoon,
just about four thirty five o'clock, you can start to
expect the traffic to intensify. Five o'clock, those typical parade
restrictions will go into effect and the parade will step
off at six o'clock.
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Talking with the vice president of Alumni, Kevin Barry, earlier
this week, this parade looks to be one of the
biggest in the area for the year. So if you're
up for a good parade, you might want to come
to downtown Morgantown tonight. Right now, clouds and thirty seven
degrees in the University city. When we come back, it's
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Speaker 2 (11:00):
A good Friday morning, clouds and thirty seven degrees in
the University City and Metro Newszaki Weather says today a
good steady dose of cloudy skies throughout the day in
a high temperature of fifty three degrees in studio. We've
got Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumble. Good morning, Mayor. How are
you doing well, Mike?
Speaker 13 (11:20):
Thanks for having me missed you last week.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yes, I tell you what, it was kind of nice
to have a week off, you know, kinda relax a
little bit.
Speaker 13 (11:30):
As I told you, I'll figure out what that's like
in about two years, maybe maybe got about twenty months
left here.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You know what We're we're going to talk about all
things Morgantown coming up, but real quick, before we do that,
I just wanted to let folks know that this afternoon
at one o'clock, Secretary of State Chris Warner will be
downtown Morgantown and he'll be giving a Centurion Business Award
to Misulo Cleaners. Now that means they've been in business
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for one hundred years, and I'm you know, I wouldn't
want people to think that I've come up with this,
but reading from the press release from the Secretary of State,
he says that West Virginia Centurions have withstood World World Wars,
stock market crashes, the Great Depression, several recessions, military conflicts,
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and pandemics that.
Speaker 13 (12:26):
Loose cleaners several pandemics now right, keeping you clean for
one hundred years. I didn't know about that. I'm happy
you mentioned that I might try to make my way
down there. It'd be great to celebrate them. They've been
a staple of downtown for a long time, absolutely about
one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
About one hundred years. Okay, hey, let's while we're downtown,
let's stay there for a minute. Got a parade downtown tonight.
Looks like there's a nice new parking lot, but unfortunately
it's not yet available.
Speaker 13 (12:56):
Yeah, you should probably stick to one of the garages
if you're going downtown for the parade tonight. That parking
lot is a little overdue, but they did get it paved. Now,
it's all striped. They have some lighting to install, but
hopefully they're still on track to have that done in
the next couple of weeks, right around the beginning of November.
(13:18):
I hope is the last, the last update I got,
But we all know how that goes changes daily.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I tell you, when you pull up there on Spruce
Street coming around from the funeral home and you're coming
up that grade, that grade, you have an opportunity to
look across that parking lot and it's smoother than I
seventy nine.
Speaker 13 (13:40):
It is gorgeous. It's well paved, well lined. Like I said,
if you're looking at it, you better hope it's daytime
because the lights aren't in yet.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, well, how's the street scape project coming?
Speaker 13 (13:52):
Yesterday the developer that's working on Walnut Street had the
street closed most of the day. There is right up
on the corner now, right in front of Hoot and Howe.
As soon as they're done there, they'll move over to
the other side, and hopefully we're on track to have
that done, you know before we need to plant trees
in the spring and stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, that's good, that's good, and I would hope that,
you know, maybe in a downtown environment. And I know
you can't speak for the contractor, and I sure can't,
but it would appear that if there were a job
or was a job that could be wintered, this would
be one you would think maybe there are a lot
of things that could do during the winter.
Speaker 13 (14:34):
It seems to me that way, But as you mentioned,
I'm not a contractor. We'll see.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That's right, that's right. They're probably begging us not to
say anything else about that.
Speaker 13 (14:44):
Project, right, now I bet they want everyone to stop
paying attention.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, So, but the parade lineup though, folks will start
to move downtown at about four thirty. Parade restrictions will
go into effect at about five, So factor that in
to your commute home from work. If you would, please, Hey,
let's shift gears and talk a little bit about Bowpark.
Speaker 13 (15:07):
Okay. The ice rink opened this week. Hallelujah.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Right.
Speaker 13 (15:11):
That has been a long time project. They voted on
one of the ice drink designs right before I joined
Bowpark seven years ago, eight years ago, and there's been
a lot of changes and price increases and things since then.
But it's a gorgeous facility. I've visited a couple of times.
They're doing a lot more public skate now. A lot
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of the competitive hockey has moved out to Myland Park,
so it gives the community a lot more time to
use our ice rink. We even have some weekend public skates.
They're doing Wednesdays from noon to two fifteen and seven
to nine pm is an adults only public skate which
people have been asking for eighteen and over on Wednesday evenings,
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and then Saturday and Sunday we have a one thirty
to three thirty and Saturday evening from seven to nine.
It's been a long time since we had that kind
of line up. A public skate for the community.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Now walk us through amenities on the inside, concessions, locker rooms,
things like that.
Speaker 13 (16:13):
The locker rooms are still being worked on. Most of
the locker rooms are renovations of the old locker rooms
since we don't have a lot of hockey happening there,
but we still have the ability. We have added two
new exclusive party rooms, so people who want to rent
for a birthday party, the warming room, that little area
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when you first enter has been completely redone. There's a
gas fireplace, a new skate counter, a new admissions counter.
The flow is a little better. Not everyone's trying to
come in through the same set of doors. We'll be
doing the Bowpark bites from Eureka Cafe concession stand. That
worked out really well for us at the summer at
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the pool over the summer, so we're continuing that. And
then you know, all of the mechanicals are new, the
dehumidification unit, the chiller, all of that stuff, heaters, seating,
new boards. We're ready to go.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You know, I heard some folks talk before the renovations
about you know, sometimes there might have been a little
bit too much moisture on the ice or maybe I
don't know that. I think there was a humidity problem
in the building, but that really should all be cured
with because of brand new chiller and everything.
Speaker 13 (17:30):
In the Yeah, there was issues with an old dehumidification
unit and we had had to rent one long term actually,
but now with all of the new mechanicals, that's brand new,
along with the chiller, ready to go.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Okay, Now Marilla Park set to undergo phase two of renovations.
Speaker 13 (17:50):
Yeah, Lower Marilla Park. I'm actually after this supposed to
go and finalize the documentation for the funding for that.
So we're expecting construction should start some maybe demolition not
so much construction. I don't know. They're going to do
a lot of work. Sometime in November. We're gonna be
moving the tennis courts. Will have six brand new tennis courts,
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new pickleball courts, a new skate park. They're going to
make some upgrades to the Marilla Center for programming and rentals,
new basketball and Bopark's first turf field, which is a
huge addition to our programming very nice.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Now, last year when you guys started the pool and
your broke ground, you know, that was kind of stealth
because it was up on the hill and in the
trees and.
Speaker 13 (18:42):
You don't really pass it unless you mean to pass it,
right right.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But I think that this year these are going to
be right up front. People are gonna when you're driving
by on Decker's Creek or or Brockway or pal whatever
you want to call it, Route seven, you're going to
see it.
Speaker 13 (19:01):
Yeah, absolutely there. You're going to notice a lot of
stuff happening in that park. We're hoping it's done well.
The majority of it should be done at the end
of next summer. We were delayed a little bit with
the financing, but it's all in place now ready to go.
And you mentioned the new pool. After the pool season ended,
we had a couple of punch list items that needed
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taken care of and that work is coming to completion
this week or next week as well. There was some
concrete work that had to be done. There were some
slippery areas we had to address, some flooring, just some landscaping,
some last minute things that didn't quite make it right
before the pool opened. But that's all completion now.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Too, Okay, well perfect Now looking ahead is Boat Park?
Are they maybe eyeing another specific park to maybe go
in and make some renovations next or is that still
under discussion.
Speaker 13 (19:56):
No major major projects. I think we're coming to the
end of some of those major projects. We are getting
ready to do some pavilion replacement in Creps Park. We're
adding one to Wiles Hill Park. We're also adding a
maintenance facility and caretakers area to Crep's Park. So you'll
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still be seeing a lot of smaller projects, minor projects
happening throughout the system. We've been kind of banking that
sales tax fund for a little while, and I think
in the next year you're really going to see most
of the improvements of that account that we've been building up.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You know, at the last meeting of Morgantown City Council,
the Morgantown Neighborhood Mosaic project Or Program was introduced. Tell
us a little bit about that.
Speaker 13 (20:51):
That was a baby of Councilor downs. He was very
excited to work on that. The city's been offering some
ats for neighborhood signage and things like that for several years,
but he wanted the ability to help neighborhoods with some
additional projects that they have, whether that's a community garden
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or a mural or their neighborhood sign. So it's a
project where there's a couple of different size grants available
and the neighborhood has to have some matching, whether that's
funding or in kind labor donation kind of things, but
really helping neighborhood associations work on some of those things
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that they would like to do but maybe funding's just
not there. The city Council intends to set aside a
chunk of money in the budget each year, and then
the Neighborhood Coordinating Council, which is made up of the
leaders of each of the neighborhood associations, will take some
submissions and look at projects, kind of rank those and
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make recommendations to the city manager on which projects should
should move forward based on the amount of funding available.
But we're very excited about it, really trying to get
those neighborhood associations feeling like they have great purpose and
utility because people love the neighborhoods in Morgantown and being
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in a neighborhood association really helps push some of those
things forward.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Remember a couple of years ago when we did the
affordable housing study and we went to the meetings and
we put post it notes up on the easels about
ideas that different people.
Speaker 13 (22:27):
Certainly mmmpo's doing that with their traffic study right now.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, well, see when that was going on, members of
the Greenmont Neighborhood Association came down and they were very,
very engaged, and that was really one of the first
neighborhoods I thought of when I saw this program.
Speaker 13 (22:44):
Oh yeah, Greenmont is well organized. I know they have
some plans for a pocket park in their neighborhood up
along White Avenue. So I can't see. I can't wait
to see what that neighborhood comes up with. They've got
some vision over there for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Okay, well, it's homecoming weekend here in the city of Morgantown,
our city on display once again.
Speaker 13 (23:07):
We can't wait to welcome everyone in, put our best
foot forward, and hopefully the Mountaineers deliver for us.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I know that's you know, but I'm going to go
ahead and call when for the Mountaineers this weekend to
think everything is right?
Speaker 13 (23:23):
I hope. So my brother in law sent my husband
and sons some tickets to use. It's my son's birthday
this weekend, so I hope they pull it out for him.
My family will be there.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Absolutely. I do too. Hey, Mayor, I really do appreciate
your time today and I hope you have a great weekend.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
Enjoy the game absolutely, Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Absolutely, take care of yourself. Right now, overcast and thirty
eight degrees in the University City and Metro Newsaki Weather
says it looks like a typical fall mid to late
October day clouds plenty of them and a high temperature
of fifty three degrees. A lot happening across the great
state of West Virginia, and to find out exactly what
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those are, we'll head to the Metro News anchor desk
and find out on the Voice of more Contown one
oh four point five FM and eight M fourteen forty WAJR.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
West Virginia. Metro newsigmed Jeff Jenkins. Not enough votes in
the US Senate to pass a pay bill for some
of the federal workers who are currently working without pay
during the federal government shutdown. US Ander Shelley Moore Capito
says enough Democrats would not agree with the paybill.
Speaker 15 (24:36):
I just think that we would do better to open
the government. We've tried to get appropriations bills going. They
will not do that, and so it's we're stuck in
the mud here because it does take sixty votes.
Speaker 14 (24:47):
Capitol says she is not in favor of eliminating the
required sixty vote threshold. US Center Jim Justice doesn't sound
too worried about an eight million dollar tax lean filed
by the IRS against his family owned companies, Justice telling
reporters Thursday is something that big businesses go through. He
says he doesn't owe the RS. In fact, he says
the RS actually owes him.
Speaker 16 (25:06):
When all this is said and done, I will promise
you to God above that what will happen is we
will Jim will end up with significantly more dollars from
the IRIS than what we owe the IRIS.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Now.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
Justice did not address a one point three million dollar
lean from the state Tax Department in connection with sales
taxes collected at the Greenbrier Resort in Greenbrier Sporting Club
but not remitted to the state. Read more at wv
metro news dot com. A search resuming this morning on
the Guyandt Rivern or Huntington, where a man jumped out
of a car last night fleeing police and jumped into
the river. Police are trying to make a stop along
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US Route sixty in the Guyandot area. You're listening to
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Speaker 14 (26:47):
Stay please releaseing more information about an officer involved shooting
from earlier this week in Harrison County that claimed a
man's life. Captain Jason Serino says Toreil White was from Huntingdon.
He says Harrison County authorities tried to make a stop
on Route twenty Tuesday.
Speaker 18 (27:00):
The minor traffic infraction that just suddenly turned into chase.
I think unbeknownst to the officer there was more going
on with the suspect that he knew at the time.
Speaker 14 (27:11):
Police believe White was dealing drugs. From the Metro News
anchored desk, I'm Jeff Jenkins.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Good Friday morning. It is nine thirty five, overcast and
thirty eight degrees in the University city. Glad you're with
us on the phone. We've got the deputy chief of
the Valley Volunteer Fire Department. Members of that particular organization
got some bad news from the City of Whitehall earlier
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this week. Late last week, Good morning, Zach. How are you.
Speaker 19 (29:01):
Today, good, sir, good, good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Absolutely, it's a pleasure to have you on board now, Zach,
if you would walk the listeners through exactly what was
your set up there in the city of Whitehall.
Speaker 19 (29:16):
Yeah, so VALLEYVFD was established back in nineteen sixty two
for the volunteer fire parmentary in Marion County right along
I seventy nine. Whitehall created a substation I believe it
was back in nineteen ninety two in a substation two
house in the Republic Safety building there. Allegedly one of
our engines and our lighter truck and that sits back
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in the substation building. They're kind of behind Walmart and
the Fairmont Theaters to provide extra fire coverage to our
first two area in the town of white Hall and
strictly a volunteer firehouse too.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Sir, okay, okay, Well, what's the advantage of you being
able to set up shop there?
Speaker 19 (29:56):
Well, the vintage is, of course, you know, we have
a million dollar dollar a one point two million dollar
ladder truck that is sits back in there around that
commercial area, ready to go to any kind of large
commercial fire, any kind of high or low angle rescue.
That ladder truck can be used for that. And we
do have a backup engine one out of three of
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our engines, that one being our third, one of the
oldest ones, but it sits back there two one thousand
gallons of war that does provide fire coverage, fire protection,
fire services to the town and surrounding county.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, We've got the deputy chief of the Value Volunteer
Fire Department, Zach Echile, with us, and now, Zach, if
you could help us understand exactly what happened between the
fire department and the city, because I guess, you know,
just looking at what I'm reading it, I guess it
could be a misunderstanding, but evidently it is not.
Speaker 19 (30:51):
There's no misunderstanding. We were literally all just cleaning up,
trying to We're a department that's not like to collect clutter,
just trying to clean the place up. And of course
we're not staffed. We are one hundred percent volunteer. We
all have full time jobs, families, and just cleaning the
place up. And literally the next day got an email
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from the town hall administrator of the council, the town
hall administrator about this and pretty much told us that
we have a thirty day month lee and pretty much
we need to get our start removed from the building
there within the thirty days.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Okay, so what about negotiating with the town, the town
administrator or city council, any conversations at all.
Speaker 19 (31:37):
We haven't spoke to any of them since this. I
did speak to Mayor de France, it's been a couple
of weeks ago. They are holding a workshop meeting November thirty,
six pm at the town Town of Whitehall Public Safety
Building and we'll have some discussions there, respectively, some discussions
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to kind of figure out the future of what they
want to do with that building.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Now. Is the Town of why Hall are they starved
for space? Is this maybe? Are they are they looking
to take that over?
Speaker 19 (32:12):
Is that maybe what it is taking it over?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
As for what sir, more off of space space?
Speaker 19 (32:20):
So yeah, so essentially all we have is like a
garage one full drive through garage bay and then another
half a garage bay is literally all we have. And
when I spoke to mister de Francis, he was looking
for some uh some room for the public street department,
the public works department that they have they have a
very large, well outfitted public works department that works at
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the Town of white Hall, and I think the mayor
is looking to put some stuff in uh in storage,
you know, out of the roof or under a roof.
I know I don't want to keep a million dollar
fire trucks out of the weather either, And I completely
get what he's saying about his equipment. So that's just
something that will be up for discussion also. Sure.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Okay, now, Zach, what kind of contingencies are you guys
looking at from maybe on the back end of this
thirty day window that you have to work with.
Speaker 19 (33:10):
Yeah, So when I spoke to the mayor about this,
of course nothing allegedly is sentenced done them, because I
don't believe the council was all aware of any of
us either. But our contingency plan like a backup, and
of course we work very well with the City of
Pleasant Valley. Value VFD is very unique. We run a
lot of the county through Marion County. We have the
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City of Pleasant Valley we work for to provide fire protection,
and then the Town of Whitehall also, so we're very unique.
We've been working very well with the mayor City Pleasant
Valley Emily Haddocks on the contingency plan a backup. We
do have a lot of businesses there. Some of them
have some relatively big storage buildings that we can keep
those trucks in, which are about three to four minutes
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down from our main station and Pleasant Valley, to keep
that ladder truck in that engine n a building until
we can get something built bigger, which is looking like
the near future.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Also, now, if you do have to go to Pleasant Valley,
how does that change response times for Whitehall.
Speaker 19 (34:10):
That's a great question because that question has been asked
several times. It does not change anything at all for
our response to the town of Whitehall. If we like
we've been getting vehicle accidents, fire alarm structure fires, anything
like that, that will to happen in the town of
white Hall. Of course, our rescue truck SQUAT twelve, it
was bought by City Pleasant Valley. It is the first
truck to go out the door and it comes out
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of our main station there in Pleasant Valley and then
an engine follows behind it. So realistically, nothing changes in
our fire response time going to our area there in
the town of Whitehall.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Okay, that's good to know. Last last thing I got
for you, Deputy Chief Zach Echo, with Value Volunteer Fire Department.
I'd like to know how many members are in your
department and then talk a little bit about the the
role that you guys play out on the interstate, if
you would.
Speaker 19 (35:04):
Yeah. So, Valley v a D operates with about twenty
twenty volunteers with four officers. We have four line officers
and twenty volunteers, and we run about twelve hundred calls
a year. Out twelve hundred those calls, there's relatively four
hundred vehicle accidents, give or take. We run that interstate
that that's a lot of our bread and butter. It
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runs directly up from Harrison County in themont County and
our first duke cuts off at the one thirty seven there.
But that's a busy stretch for us. And we have
not missed a call yet, you know. And I like
to knockle Wood and stay humble because we are volunteered.
We're not stats. But running the vehicle accents on the interstate,
the vehicle accents in the town of white Hall, whatever
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happens in the county and the state plays in the valley,
keeps us very very busy. Speaking of we were just
banged out for three vehicle accents this morning. We had
one of twelve thirty in the morning, one at five
o'clock in the morning, and one it having around seven
to twenty this morning, all on air state seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Okay, and not surprised. I hate to hear it, but
I'm not.
Speaker 19 (36:06):
Stay off the interstate.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, there you go. Now, last thing, though, Zach, how
much work does Whitehall account for in percentage? Would you
say twenty five percent? Thirty forty? What would that number be?
Speaker 19 (36:19):
Are we talking about call volume there?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Yes, sir, relatively forty? Okay, all right, perfect, Hey, Deputy
Chief Zach Eckle with Value Volunteer Fire Department. Really do
appreciate your time, sir, and I hope you have a
safe day, and you know, stay off the interstate if
you can.
Speaker 19 (36:40):
Absolutely, I appreciate you, and I appreciate you having us
there on your talk show.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Absolutely, take care of yourself.
Speaker 19 (36:46):
All right, you too, sir, you bet you.
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Deputy Chief Value Volunteer Fire Department, Zach Eckle. When we
come back, we're going to talk about need in this community.
That's next talk of the town. Am fourteen forty FM
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I'll go out on a limb because people won't like
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Probably.
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I think there's fewer coyotes than most people imagine. Really
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The coyotes are getting They've been kind of shut mouthed
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Good Friday Morning, Clouds and thirty eight degrees. In studio,
we have the executive director of Christian Help, Colleen Lankford,
and would like to just remind listeners. Coming up on
November seventh, from six am to six pm, WVRC Media
Cares will present Cans for Community. That will be a
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twelve hour food drive at the Giant Eagle at the
University Town Center. This all brought about by the delay
possible delay of Snap benefits brought on by the federal
government shutdown. We've got Colleen in this morning to just
talk a little bit about First, how's everything going over
(42:08):
there on Walnut Street with Christian Help.
Speaker 26 (42:11):
Good morning, Mike. Everything's going pretty well at Christian Help.
We're anxiously awaiting the completion of the streetscape so that
we can open up our side of the street for
a couple of weeks, but generally it's going well.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Okay, Well, that's good. Now, give us an idea. I
guess you recently just had the store back to school
store where folks could pretty much just show up and
get shirts, some I guess, just a set of clothes
for a child. How'd that event go?
Speaker 26 (42:44):
Oh and great? We had let me just check that
one quickly. We had four hundred and eighty two students
from grades K through twelve whose parents came and got
them five outfits, five pair of underwear, five socks, and
a brand new pair of tennis shoes. Went over very well.
We had a week worth of activity and the families
were well supported.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Now, on a monthly basis, give us an idea of
how many families that you do help well.
Speaker 26 (43:11):
It depends upon the type of service they're looking for,
but typically we're looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of
eight thousand shoppers during the course of a year. Last
year it was two hundred and thirty two. In our
food pantry. Were typically focused on individuals. Let's see twelve
(43:33):
hundred and seventy seven households that we served last year.
In the emergency financial services area, we facilitated ninety nine,
seven hundred and thirty six dollars worth of support to
a thousand different families for their utility, rent, prescription and
(43:57):
other financial needs to get them over or whatever situation
might be difficult for them.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Sure, Colleen Langford is with Christian Help, and Colleen wanted
to talk specifically about food insecurity if we could, because
you know, with the delay and the SNAP benefits. It
seems like over the last week, I've heard everything from
you know, people being encouraged not to give out candy
(44:23):
maybe give out food at Halloween, to you know, some
of the things that families are going through. And I'm wondering,
is this media hype or is this real? No, it's real.
Speaker 26 (44:35):
Although I would not recommend giving out cans of vegetables
to children who are trick or treating, I'm sure they
would not like that because halloween's a you know, it's
a cornerstone. It's it's something that you have memories about.
It's not the type of thing that you should.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
You don't want to be a stick in the mud.
Speaker 26 (44:52):
Well, I do want them to memory enjoy the memories
of their childhood. But yeah, food and security is is
very real. In West Virginia. Generally speaking, one in six
individuals qualify for SNAP support, and SNAP support is something
that historically had been one hundred percent federally funded, but
at this point, following the Big Beautiful Bill, it's actually
(45:15):
split between the state and the federal government. Our emergency
funds are tapped, and until yesterday, we didn't know if
the state was going to be able to provide any
support toward the food banks or for the pantries. But
as I understand it, Governor Morrissey has announced an expedite,
an attempt to expedite one point one million dollars worth
(45:36):
of emergency funding two West Virginia food banks. So that'll
be helpful.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
How will that help you?
Speaker 26 (45:42):
Actually, it doesn't really help us. We do not participate
in the Mountaineer Food Bank. Most of our or not
most all of our donations come from the community at large.
There are income restrictions that go along with some of
the food banks that we're not willing to sign up
off on those requirements, and the reason is that we
can't serve the public at large regardless of income if
(46:06):
we do that. So, for example, whenever you are the
qualifications for food bank are very similar to the qualifications
for SNAP, but it's dependent upon certain percentages of federal
poverty level as far as your annual income. Many people
(46:26):
don't qualify for that if you're looking at their actual
annual income. So what Christian Help does is, if you're hungry,
we feed you, and we will give you a food
order every thirty days, depending upon your request for it.
As opposed to what your taxes say you have in
(46:47):
our pantry service. Typically, what we would see calendar year
twenty four, for example, we served approximately fifty three people
per week. What we have seen recently last week, second
week of October the thirteenth through the seventeenth, we actually
had eighty one individuals that we served. That's a fifty
three percent increase, and the majority of those individuals were
(47:10):
new to our services. They had never used our pantry
services in the past. So we are seeing a spike
in individual numbers. We're also seeing larger families and coupling
of families whenever they're coming and asking for support. In
West Virginia as a whole. Like I said before, one
(47:32):
in six individuals qualify for SNAP. We hear frequently that
one in five children are food insecure, but whenever you
look at the overall numbers, sixteen percent of our population
has difficulty, verifiable difficulty in obtaining enough food and nutritional
support for themselves.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
And I think it's important to point out at this
point that Mond County Schools has an enrollment of about
twelve thousand children, and we do know that a substantial
number of those children do experience food insecurity.
Speaker 26 (48:08):
They do, otherwise we wouldn't have a need for pantry
plus and more in the school system.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Very true, Colleen, really do appreciate you coming in today
and we look forward to having you out on sen
November the seventh, that the giant eagle will talk more
than I appreciate that. Thank you, absolutely. You take care
of yourself, Colleen Langford, executive director of Christian Help. Certainly.
(48:33):
You can drop off donations at two nineteen Walnut Street
or check them out online. You can also email Colleen
at director at Motown Christianhelp dot com. It's nine fifty five.
We'll be back to wrap things up on top of
the town after this on AM fourteen forty f M
one four point five WAJR.
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In a stream or a river, they really like to
have a mud bank, and they like to have a
place where they can dig an underwater hole as a refuge.
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That's correct. You they have to evade predators. Now, some
prayers will chase them there a maker and auger obviously,
but they can avoid they can avoid the coyotes, of hawks,
the bobcats, the owls and the hawks. And that's really
the ones that probably take the most of them.
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The time of the year when Friday nights are spent,
and that's because Friday night's are reserved for high school football.
This is Fred Pursinger inviting you to join Dame Jekman
in me every Friday night through November twenty eighth for
year number twenty four of Game Night. Every Friday night,
we'll bring you all the stores and stories from around
the state. LUs we'll take your phone calls and talk
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Well, good Friday morning. It is homecoming weekend here in
the University City and coming up today at the Mountain
Lair beginning at eleven am. From eleven am until four,
it will be Mountaineer Friday out in front of the
Mountain Lair. The Mountaineer Maniacs will be on hand. They'll
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be passing out some buttons, They'll have some sports team
posters available, some free snacks and music. Food trucks will
also be on location, and the Mountaineer mascot he'll join
the fun plus WVU Bookstor is going to have a
pop up shop where you can get all the cold
Rush gear. Before kickoff, and by the way, kickoff is Saturday,
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six pm miland Pushcar Stadium against TCU WVU, shocks the
community and gets a homecoming win. That's my prediction. Metro
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