September 24, 2025 • 36 mins
Director of the WVU Purpose Center Cate Schlobohm with an update from the Week of Purpose
Monongalia County Delegate Anitra Hamilton on social media posts made after the assassination of Charlie Kirk
Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumble and Walk Sarkeys on the Greatful Dead tribute appreciation concert along Deckers Creek this weekend.
Monongalia County Delegate Anitra Hamilton on social media posts made after the assassination of Charlie Kirk
Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumble and Walk Sarkeys on the Greatful Dead tribute appreciation concert along Deckers Creek this weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome to Talk of the Town and good Wednesday morning.
Ethan Collins is our producer today and you can get
to him through by calling eight hundred seven sixty five
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that is three zero four talk three zero four metro.
New Zaki Weather says some rain in the area, clouds
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and sixty five degrees currently. Now there is a significant
chance of showers and thunderstorms today and forecast I have
just about seventy four degrees on the program today. At
nine point fifteen, we'll get an up date on the
Week of Purpose from Kate Schlowbom. She is the director
of the Purpose Center at WVU. Of course, a Purpose
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Week kicked off on Monday with more than forty activities.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
We'll get an update on that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Also, Mont County Delegate Antra Hamilton will join us at
nine point thirty. She'll be addressing some social media comments
that she made in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
We'll also check in with mont County Sheriff Todd Forbes.
It is a Wanted Wednesday. We'll meet this week's slate
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of featured felons. Plus we'll get an update from Todd
on the crash out on Mason Dixon Highway that was
reported on Tuesday afternoon. Going to wrap up the program
with the City of Morgantown. I've got a big event
coming up this weekend. It is entitled the It is
actually a tribute on the mushroom there.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It is right there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It is a tribute called Live by the Creek and
it will be a reenactment or performance by a Grateful
Dead tribute band of the Grateful deads nineteen seventy five
Golden Gate Park show on their fiftieth anniversary. Let's see now,
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this is going to be at the end of the
Deckers Creek Mushroom trail beneath the High Street Bridge. That's
coming up on Sunday. They'll get that started at two
o'clock in the afternoon. Got some representatives including Mayor Daniel
Trumbull coming in to give us some details about that.
Let's take a look at a couple of headlines. Did
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take crews several hours to clean up that crash on
Mason Dixon Highway in Bond County on Tuesday. It involved
a head on crash between two tractor trailers has Matt Cruz.
They needed to take care of some hazardous materials that
spilled as a result of that crash.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The crash was reported at.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Ten forty eight in the morning and the road remained
closed until mid afternoon. Sheriff Todd Forbes did tell WAJR
News that there were no serious injuries reported in that crash,
just a minor traffic note this morning cruise from the
Morgantown Utility Board. They continue their work on Des Moines
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Avenue and as a result, that closure will continue for
a short period today between Charles and Hampton Avenues.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We'll get an update on that and pass that along.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
WVU Police Departments release their twoenty twenty four Cleary Act
report shows no major increases from last year, but with
some notable changes. Burglaries were up, reports of domestic violence up,
and stocking cases they nearly doubled. Now full hazing Transparency
report is set for release in December, and we'll welcome
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WVU University these chief Sherifson and Claire to the program
on Friday at nine thirty. We're going to talk about
that clear reporting. I've also got a few additional questions
that we'll get in front of the University police chief.
Mond County Board of Education hosted lawmakers on Tuesday evening.
Senator Mike Olaverio, Delegates Joe Statler, David McCormick, Mike DeVault,
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Gino Sciarelli, Evan Hansen, and Innetra Hamilton attended. They talked
about legislative priorities, including continues support for the Student Discipline
Bill Senate Bill one ninety nine, and general education funding.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Now, these discussions, especially about funding.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Very very important in light of the reduced revenue forecast
for county education systems planning for four point two million
dollar revenue reduction due to lower property tax revenues.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And of course there.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Is also the PEI, a issue that always seems to
be tagging along with us. Coming up next, gonna spend
a few minutes with Kate Slowbam. She's the director of
the Purpose Center at wv You get an update on
Purpose Week on the Morgantown campus and talk about what's
happening there right now, rain in the area, cloud's sixty
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five degrees. We'll be back on AM fourteen forty FM
one oh four point five w A Jr.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Right after this.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
five eight two fivey five. This is the talk of
the town.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It is ninety sixteen some rain in the area, cloud
sixty five degrees in the University city. This is the
Week of Purpose on the Morgantown campus of WVU. On
the phone, We've got the director of the Purpose Center,
Kate Slowbaum. Hey Kate, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Good morning, Mike, thanks for having me again today.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
He absolutely, it's a pleasure to have you. Now, let's
see give us an update of what is happening in
terms of Purpose week.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
All right. Well, when we talked earlier this week, we
were talking about some of the programming that we would have.
So so far, we've already reached over eight hundred students
in the classroom. We've had some events to get people
thinking about purpose and their clipped and strengths, which we'll
talk more about today. And we've really just been helping
people think about what that impact is that they want
to make.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Hey, you know, one thing I noticed I was taking
a look at your list of events, and you know,
sometimes we'll do a swat analysis strength weaknesses and things
like that, and it looks like maybe a part of
this week is a little bit of a motivational boost
kind of midway through the semester.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Absolutely, always talk to students about how things start off
pretty exciting and we have that optimism, and then as
things move forward in the semester, maybe you get a
little bit worn out, burned out, and so we can
actually think about our purpose to help us stay motivated
and remember that why why we're here, why we want
to get out of bed, why we want to show
up to class. So definitely a way to stay motivated.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And you know, one thing that I saw that I'd
like for you to reflect on is you're helping people
make friends, connections, personal connections.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Yes, so absolutely, building community is something that's really important
for everybody, but specifically when you're a college student, meeting
those trends, finding the people that you want to be with,
study with, hang out with that really helps you have
a good, solid experience. Plus, they are going to be
the people that you may start your career with, and
so we help them do that through a number of ways,
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just you know, talking about the things that we have
in commons, so if they have common purpose, helping them
find opportunities that may be exciting to them that they
may not have explored on their own, and then even
just in the classes, helping them navigate what classes they
might like to take together and building that community with them.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You know, Kate, the generation that is occupying classrooms as
we have this conversation sometimes gets a bad rap for
their lack of personal skills, but it would appear as
if post pandemic a lot of that is changing.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, I think you know, they might get a bad rap,
but we work with these students every single day and
they bring a lot of value to the table. They
may be a little bit different than how you or
I might interact with things, but they really bring a
lot of good into the world. We're seeing a lot
of relationship building skills when we start talking about their
clift and strength, so they definitely know how to build
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those relationships and they're hungry for that. They love social.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Connection now as we move out of Purpose Week, are
there any maybe maintenance activities on your part in order
to keep this message alive until the end of the semester.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Absolutely so. At WVU are constantly talking about purpose and strengths.
We actually have won a couple of global awards for
our strengths based work. So we have these conversations year round,
we have workshops, we're in the classrooms, we're doing different
engagement activities year round. So Week of Purpose is really
just a concentrated effort of these opportunities. But they don't
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stop at any point in the year.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, good deal, Kate Slowbomb. She's the director of the
Purpose Center. Anything big on the agenda today.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Today we're going to be in a couple of classrooms
talking about Clifton Strengths again, helping students understand what they
naturally do well and how they can do more of
that to enjoy their time on campus and beyond Well.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Kate, you've been extremely generous with your time and I
definitely appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Have a great day.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Absolutely take care of yourself. Kate Slowbomb.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
She's the director of the Purpose Center at West Virginia University.
The Week of Purpose runs through this this week. Now,
let's see, of course it is a wanted Wednesday here
in the University city, and also some trouble on the
roadways from Tuesday out on Mason Dixon Highway. On the phone,
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we've got mon County Sheriff Todd Forbes. Good morning, Sheriff,
how are you?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Good morning? How are you hey?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I'm doing good, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Wanted to remind everybody that you can go out to
Monengelia Sheriff dot gov and you can take a look
at anything that the sheriff and I are talking about
here this morning. Now, Sheriff, I guess let's talk a
little bit about Mason Dixon Highway. What can you tell
us about that?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Well, Mike, if you don't mind, I'd like to there's
something else in real quick before we get to that subject.
I want to remind everybody that this week is a
child past your Safety week, and Saturday morning, about nine
to eleven here in our office one sixteen Walna Street,
we're going to be doing child safety tea check. So
if anybody wants to stop by, then we have some
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people here that are going to make sure that the
teacher are passing in right and give a little education
about those. So we welcome everybody to come down for that. Hey,
that's true.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
No, you know, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Getting back to that, I've got a couple of grandkids
and I can tell you you just about need a
PhD to put a car seat in.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Well. Yeah, yeah, it's not as easy as it used
to be. You know. Of course we laid in the
back window whenever we were kids. Whenever those times are gone.
We do have some folks that are trained to do that,
and so we're more than happy to share that information
and that wisdom about getting those in there. Nothing could
be more important than having our kids saved when we're
on the roadways.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. And you're also right
about riding in the back window. That was fun though,
I'll say that.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
They was a lot more fun than it is now,
I'm sure. But those times that they are gone.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Okay, and now that that's going to be give us
those times again. Saturday morning, Please.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Nine am to eleven am here at one sixteen law
on that street in our office. We'll have some folks
here ready to ready to help out when they can.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Okay, great, now, let's turn our attention to Mason Dixon Highway.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
What happened out there, sheriff, So, yeah, and yesterday.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Initially I think the report was that it was a
head on collision. It was more so a side slight
type of collision. The problem with that is the two
things that intersected with each other were the gas tanks
from the vehicles. So we're very fortunate we didn't have
a fire, but a lot of diesel fuel got spilled
onto the roadway, which created the closure for such a
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long time. From about eleven am to about four thirty PM,
crewis were out there cleaning up.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Any significant injuries reported as part.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Of that, No, there were noticing significant injuries. I was
able to ascertain that one of the trucks, a locally
owned truck Anderson Excavation, was involved, along with a rise
in contracting out of New Salem because of the here,
the were the companies that were involved. And fortunately there
were no injuries and we're really fortunate I think that
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there wasn't some sort of a fire or explosion because
so much gas was was involved in this.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Well, that's good. It sounds like we were lucky.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And it also from talking with Mecca nine to one
one and talking with you throughout the day yesterday, it
sounds like the response was top notch.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I know that the Brook Cave and
the Castle Fire departments were there. There may have been
in some others. Those are the ones I know for sure. Also,
the Montague County hasmat and crew, which those guys are incredible.
H They were out there cleaning up. So we're fortunate
to have such good first responders.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Absolutely. Now did the Deep have to get involved in that, Todd?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
I believe they were there for some amount of time,
but that was later in the afternoon, once our personnel
had left the scene.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Okay, good deal.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now let's see it is a Wanted Wednesday, and I
believe that you've got a slate of featured felons you'd
like to tell us about, Dodd, Yeah, I had.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
The good news is we're starting to run a little
bit low on people to feature because we've ran so
many and we've captured so many, So that's a good problem.
The first fellow we want to talk about today is
David Ray Crawford. He's oneed for trespassing and failure to appear.
The second individual is the Kwan Goodie drug related charges
and failure to appear. Sherry murrat As also for afraid
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to appear, David Wiggins fellony, possession of a firearm from
a prohibited person, and lastly Timothy Williams for obstructing, possession
of a canoe substance and driving while licenses were suspended.
So if anybody has the information on that, we'd love
to hear from you. As always, we appreciate the tips
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we get from the community, and that's that's part of
what makes this work is that we have community involvement
and we really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
There are pictures and descriptions at Montagelia Sheriff dot gov.
Uh Sheriff help us understand how these backlogs develop.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Well, just on a day to day you know, a
lot of times what happens is a criminal complaint is
done on the person following an investigation. The person may
not be present at that time. All the rest are
made on scene forthwith. So after investigations we get warned
for people and then we don't encounter them for a while.
But you know, they either move or they're maybe they're
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trying to avoid capture in some instances, but it's just
it happens through natural causes. You know, they're not around
at the time that the warrant as signed, and then
it's just a matter of finding them and making them
answer to their to their crimes.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
How many how many of these cases are people that
maybe don't comply with the terms of probation or parole.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Yeah, that that's part of it. Certainly there's a few
of those. And then there of course, and you hear
me say this when I go down the list each week,
is people that were have been arrested, they posted on
and then they failed to come back to their court
here and a lot of them are those. You know
that that accounts for a lot of the people that
decide they're not going to go to Quarter. They forget
about Quarter. Who knows what the reason is, but they
didn't appear for their hearing, so that leads the case unadjudicated.
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So it makes us take a little action later.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Last thing I wanted to ask about Sheriff if I could,
is the school safety officers very very different than the
school resource officers. But I guess that program now is
we're just a few weeks into it.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
How's that going, Well, it's going great.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
We actually have. We have a school officer in every
school in our county every single day, so not always
is it all day. Sometimes it's proportions of days. Some
guys are sharing some schools, you know, schools are sharing
an officer, but somebody is at every single school every
single day. So we're really proud of that. It seems
to be working well. I don't want to knock on
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any wood, but I mean it's been pretty smoothy. We
have instances where we had to enact an anything different,
so we're blessed about that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
All right, well, Sheriff, hey, listen, appreciate your time today.
We'll get the word out about your featured felons, and
thank you for the Mason Dixon Highway information.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Yes, sir, thank you, and talking next week.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Absolutely take care of yourself, Sheriff Todd Forbes And of
course you'll be able to get information about the featured
felons that we spoke about at Montigilia sheriff dot gov.
And they also have some additional information about the Mason
Dixon Highway accident there as well. Coming up next, we're
going to do speak with mont County Delegate Anitra Hamilton
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in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Delegate
Hamilton made some comments on social media that seemed to
gain a lot of attention from from private endo viduals
and her fellow elected officials here in the area, and
we reached out to Delegate Hamilton, I guess very shortly
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after those comments were made. However, we were unable to
make contact with her later conversations. She was obviously very
very busy dealing with that and then also her work
as a delegate. Well, we're going to speak with her
after the Metro News break. We're going to find out
more information about those comments and exactly what she was
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trying to convey with those. We'll wrap the program up
with some representatives from from City of Morgantown. We'll be
talking about a special event coming up on Sunday afternoon
down on the Deckers Creek rail Trail to pay tribute
to some of the volunteers, some of the clean up
workers that have not only been just conducting everyday maintenance
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seen through the summer of twenty twenty five, how these
torrential rain events have washed out the rail trail in
many many places, and we've even seen the GoFundMe, the
fundraising efforts and the things that Ella Belling has had
to do to try to pull together. I use the
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word patchwork not in a derogatory term, but there have
been so many events that have been so frequent that
you can't lean on the same people all the time.
That's where the patchwork comes in. She's had to kind
of rely on a network of people in order to
address those issues. They'll be paying tribute thanking those workers
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at that event on Sunday. We'll talk about that coming
up at nine forty.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Now back to the Talk of the Town.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, good Wednesday morning, Welcome back to the program. Clouds
and sixty five degrees. There could be some light rain
where you are in the city of Morgantown and Metro
Newsaki Weather says there's an eighty percent chance of rain
for the remainder of the day. On the phone, we've
got mon County Delegate Anitra Hamilton. Good morning, Anitra, and
thank you for joining us.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
How are you, good morning, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I'm doing well, absolutely well. It's a pleasure to have
you on. Now let's see Anitra wanted to give you
an opportunity to talk about your social media comments, what
they meant, what you were trying to convey in the
wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Absolutely, thank you so much. First of all, I want
to say that violence is never okay and it will
never be the answer. And either one of my posts,
I never was condoning violence, nor was I a murder.
In my first post, I was simply viewing the immediate
and as we can see, the continued different responses of
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two tragedies that took place, and I simply drew a
comparison of those responses. My first post that was shared
was cropped and it did not convey my entire post,
which changed the entire context of my message. What was
shared removed at the end of my message where I stated,
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you know, don't judge situations, you know to basically find
your business, And in my first post, I was only
my message was really looking at two different situations, saying
that you know, two things could be true. You know,
you could look at a situation and draw stress from it,
and I could look at a situation and feel harm
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from it. But in either situation, you know, looking at
what's occurring nationally, not to judge the situation and to
simply mind your business. But that was cropped, so when
that post was shared, it totally you know, changed the
context of my message. My second post really just dealt
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with the effects of racism and what racism does, and
it wasn't targeted toward any group of individuals. I began
the post by saying, you know, America has become accustomed
to people of notable reputation of people of no reputation.
And I also referenced in the post that it doesn't
matter whether you're Republican, Democrat or independent. You know, I
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wasn't targeting anyone, but just speaking, you know, as a
black woman who has grown up in West Virginia, just
speaking on what the effects of what racism does. And
I just really feel both posts when they were shared,
I have been able to see some of the comments
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and some of the articles that was written was taken
I feel out of context as it relates to the
message that I was trying to convey. But that was,
you know, the gist of my message, and both of
those posts really wasn't targeting anyone, but just really drawing
a comparison of the responses of the people in the
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wake of two horrible tragedies that took place. And I
do want to state that, you know, Charlie Kirk should
have never died. And I know I never mentioned his
name and it's been referenced to him, but what happened
to him was horrible. He was a husband, he's a father.
It should have never taken place. You know, violence is
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never the answer and it will never be the answer,
and we condone it on every.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Level, Delegate, and Nietra Hamilton is with us in a NIATRA.
One question that I've gotten about those posts is why
take him down?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I didn't take them down. That was the whole thing.
Those posters on my private page, they're still up. I
never took those posts down. Those was never on my
delegate page. Those was on my private page. Those posters
are still up. So again, these are all assumptions made
about me that were never true.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And I'm glad that you know we could bring you
on in order to set this straight. Now, another question
that I had was about the comparison, because you know,
in one of the comparisons I believe was the murder
of a Ukrainian national on a Charlotte train that was
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committed by someone who had been arrested fourteen times previous,
and we're comparing that incident with an unprovoked killing of
I guess, just a college activist. What's the comparison.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I wasn't looking at the comparison. Wasn't looking at the
individuals committing the murder. It was looking at the responses
of the harm and the outpour that people was, you know,
looking at the comments that was being made. For instance,
the young man that was on the train that committed
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the murder, the outpour against him was insane. You know.
It was a black individual that murdered a white lady.
He had several bouts with mental illness. Again, not judging
the situation. He harmed one lady. Looking at the comparison
with the second murder, and I wasn't looking at the murderer,
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but looking at the harm. One person that has harmed many,
you know, with the statements that were made. So when
you look at I'm looking at the how the harm
was looking how we can compare the harm. That's what
I was looking at. I wasn't looking at the murderers,
because the young man that killed Charlie Kirk should receive
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the full extent of the law, and the young man
that killed the lady on the bus, he's going to
receive The law failed him, the system felled him.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
But do you think, though, in a way, when we
just assume that words are injurious as I think I've
heard you say in the past, don't you think we
sell ourselves short in our ability to be able to
debate and have these conversations among us.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
No, I don't think that we sell ourselves short. I
think that's what makes us human. That's what makes us human.
And if we look at any type of debate, we
can see when debates change, when people get upset. It's
just what makes us human. It makes us realize the
essence of life. You know that some things that affect you,
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you know, gives me the opportunity and the availability to
try to understand why it affects you in that matter,
you know, don't I don't believe it it takes away
from debate. I think it gives the debate more in
depth because it helps us to understand different individuals from
different walks of life as to why they respond to
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words in certain ways. You know. So I don't think
it takes away. But what I can say, Mike, from
this situation, I have learned that words matter. And although
we know that it's a bit, it has impressed upon
me so much more that words matter. And I have
taken that away from this situation, and you know, thinking
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of my words. You know, I've had the opportunity to
speak to so many constituents, so many thought leaders. I've
spoken to educators, pastors. I've taken the time to some
of my colleagues, some of my mentors, and I have
Republican mentors, you know, I have a mentor that cross
the out because I am a people builder, and you know,
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if my words brought division with my message, you know,
going forward, I'm looking for ways to have more open
spaces of dialogue because my end goal, Mike, is unity.
People who know me know that I'm a people builder.
That's my goal, and you know that's my resolve as
a delicate and a state representative of West Virginia. That's
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my end goal unity.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Moving forward, What are maybe some of the things you're
thinking about in order to promote unity.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Oh, my god, I've already started. I've already started. I
have created spaces to have open conversations on difficult conversations.
I am working on a program coming up to deal
with words concerning different things like how we speak concerning
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our house list population, how we speak relating to race relations,
because we know that for even in twenty twenty five,
we still have a hard time dealing with race relations.
So how opening up these spaces to have these a
safe space to have these conversations, because words matter, and
I believe the more that we're able to talk about
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them in a safe space, you know, having different thought leaders,
and not just politicians, but having thought leaders, pastors, community leaders,
different individuals in the room and the community, we're able
to understand each other on a deeper level and move
toward a greater level of unity.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Delli good A Nature Hamilton Anietra.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Really do appreciate you coming on the program and providing
that clarification.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Thank you very much, ma'am, thank you so much for
having me. And again I do want to say that
in no way was our condoning murder or political violence.
And again, as a delegate of my county, you know
my adal is unity and if my words about any
division again move them. I resolved moving forward is to
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provide those open spaces of open dialogue. So I really
appreciate you reaching out giving me this opportunity. On those
that know me know I show up for my constituents,
on my county and for my state. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Make absolutely and I hope that maybe this will lead
to more collaboration as we move into the legislative session
between you and I.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
That's my hope.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Okay, Hey, thank you very much, Delegate Anitra Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Really do appreciate her time.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
When we come back, going to be talking about a
Sunday afternoon celebration along Deckers Creek. It's going to involve
a Grateful Dead tribute band and we're thanking some of
the volunteers and workers that make that trail what it
is today. It's coming up next on AM fourteen forty
FM one oh four point five w AJR.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It is nine forty nine, some rain in the Morgantown
area and sixty six degrees Metro Newsaki Weather says an
eighty percent chance of showers for the remainder of the day.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
In I have seventy two. We'll keep you updated on
that possibility.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
In studio, we've got Walt Sarquies and we also have
Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumbull.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Good morning to both. How are you doing great?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Thank you, Micam, absolutely well, it's a pleasure to have
you here. Coming up on that Sunday from two until six.
It'll be beneath the South High Street Bridge. It is
the well why don't you Well?
Speaker 7 (32:01):
We're calling it dead all Along Live by the Creek,
and the concert is kind of the centerpiece of the event,
but the event is really to show off what's been
going on there in that portion of Decker's Creek and
the people who've been working there have been doing an
amazing job. Danielle as one of them, and there's a
whole bunch of people who have given their time and
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energy in a way that I don't think I've seen
in my twenty five years here in Morgantown to this scale.
I've been a part of cleanup efforts, I've been a
part of groups doing stuff, and I've watched what people
do in this town for a long time, and this
is I think the first time I've seen this kind
of scale, with this kind of impact so quickly and
so visibly.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Well, you've got the mural, You've got there was a
comprehensive mulch project down there. There were several clean up
events down there from the man back up to the trail.
I guess you, Danielle, probably know a lot more than I.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
We've been working hard for the last twelve or eighteen months,
but especially this year along the Creek. We've been organizing
large scale volunteer days. We get anywhere from about twenty
people to fifty people per day, and we're able to
make a lot of things happen that way. We do
all of the planning and the prep, we get the
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permits and the city dump trucks and all that fun stuff,
and people can just show up and put in a
few hours and really see the difference they're making in
the area.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Now, let's see Walt and a Grateful Dead tribute band.
They'll be performing the Grateful Dead Show from September of
nineteen ninety five at Golden Gate.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Park seventy five. That is, it's actually the same date,
same day, on a Sunday, twenty fifty years to the day. Oh,
we're going to be doing that show.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay, So that's why you picked the show.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Yeah, that show is it was important in The Grateful
Dead's history because at the time they were about to
release the nineteen seventy five album Blues for Allah, and
that was probably their most complex record that they had
made up until that point, the most musically complex record,
and they were also on a band on the verge
of not being a band anymore, possibly because they had
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come off the road after ten years, needing to rethink
about what they were doing, and instead of disappearing, not
only did they come back after releasing that record, but
they spent another thirty year or fifty years up to
that point to today. If you're talking about what Dead
and Company still does today with the remaining living members
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of the Dead, the music just never stopped right that
from that point on. It that was kind of the
replanting of the seed, the rebirth of the Grateful Dead
at that point. And so it was significant to us
being the sixtieth anniversary of The Grateful Dead and the
fiftieth anniversary of that show, and the thirtieth anniversary of
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Jerry Garcia's death, which kind of marks like the halfway
point where it just you figure when he died, there
was not gonna be a Grateful Dead anymore. But not
only did that not happen, Now there are hundreds of
other bands just like our band dead, all along around
the country doing what we do because this music is
it connects with so many people.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Now I'm really tied on time. I apologize for that.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
But tell me how do you rehearse to reproduce a show?
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Well, we just with this kind of set list. We
go with what's on the set, and then we think
about what the Grateful Dead would do, not specifically what
notes they would play, and we try to accomplish the
sound and the spirit and keep it on the fun side.
You know, Grateful Dead was kind of known for playing
long jams and that was for them for the audience,
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and it was indulgent in a way, but also exploration.
But we try to keep things fairly tight so that
everyone can dance and have a good time. And in
this case, because we are giving everybody an opportunity to
see what's been done along the river, we want to
keep it as tight as we can and let them
enjoy the surroundings, especially what our friends at morgantel Ford
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have been doing, and so that they have time to
see that and see the mushroom trail.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Beauty gotta wrap things up.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
We'll be back after this on AM fourteen forty FM
one oh four point five W A.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Jr.
This is the Talk of the Town from Morgantown to Klerksburg.
If it's happening, we're talking about it. Call the show
toll free at one eight hundred seven sixty five eight
two five five. Now Here is your host for the
Talk of the Town, Mike Notlting.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome to Talk of the Town and good Wednesday morning.
Ethan Collins is our producer today and you can get
to him through by calling eight hundred seven sixty five
eight two five five. Now the toll free tax line
that is three zero four talk three zero four metro.
New Zaki Weather says some rain in the area, clouds
(00:46):
and sixty five degrees currently. Now there is a significant
chance of showers and thunderstorms today and forecast I have
just about seventy four degrees on the program today. At
nine point fifteen, we'll get an up date on the
Week of Purpose from Kate Schlowbom. She is the director
of the Purpose Center at WVU. Of course, a Purpose
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Week kicked off on Monday with more than forty activities.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
We'll get an update on that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Also, Mont County Delegate Antra Hamilton will join us at
nine point thirty. She'll be addressing some social media comments
that she made in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
We'll also check in with mont County Sheriff Todd Forbes.
It is a Wanted Wednesday. We'll meet this week's slate
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of featured felons. Plus we'll get an update from Todd
on the crash out on Mason Dixon Highway that was
reported on Tuesday afternoon. Going to wrap up the program
with the City of Morgantown. I've got a big event
coming up this weekend. It is entitled the It is
actually a tribute on the mushroom there.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It is right there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It is a tribute called Live by the Creek and
it will be a reenactment or performance by a Grateful
Dead tribute band of the Grateful deads nineteen seventy five
Golden Gate Park show on their fiftieth anniversary. Let's see now,
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this is going to be at the end of the
Deckers Creek Mushroom trail beneath the High Street Bridge. That's
coming up on Sunday. They'll get that started at two
o'clock in the afternoon. Got some representatives including Mayor Daniel
Trumbull coming in to give us some details about that.
Let's take a look at a couple of headlines. Did
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take crews several hours to clean up that crash on
Mason Dixon Highway in Bond County on Tuesday. It involved
a head on crash between two tractor trailers has Matt Cruz.
They needed to take care of some hazardous materials that
spilled as a result of that crash.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The crash was reported at.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Ten forty eight in the morning and the road remained
closed until mid afternoon. Sheriff Todd Forbes did tell WAJR
News that there were no serious injuries reported in that crash,
just a minor traffic note this morning cruise from the
Morgantown Utility Board. They continue their work on Des Moines
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Avenue and as a result, that closure will continue for
a short period today between Charles and Hampton Avenues.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We'll get an update on that and pass that along.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
WVU Police Departments release their twoenty twenty four Cleary Act
report shows no major increases from last year, but with
some notable changes. Burglaries were up, reports of domestic violence up,
and stocking cases they nearly doubled. Now full hazing Transparency
report is set for release in December, and we'll welcome
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WVU University these chief Sherifson and Claire to the program
on Friday at nine thirty. We're going to talk about
that clear reporting. I've also got a few additional questions
that we'll get in front of the University police chief.
Mond County Board of Education hosted lawmakers on Tuesday evening.
Senator Mike Olaverio, Delegates Joe Statler, David McCormick, Mike DeVault,
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Gino Sciarelli, Evan Hansen, and Innetra Hamilton attended. They talked
about legislative priorities, including continues support for the Student Discipline
Bill Senate Bill one ninety nine, and general education funding.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Now, these discussions, especially about funding.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Very very important in light of the reduced revenue forecast
for county education systems planning for four point two million
dollar revenue reduction due to lower property tax revenues.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And of course there.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Is also the PEI, a issue that always seems to
be tagging along with us. Coming up next, gonna spend
a few minutes with Kate Slowbam. She's the director of
the Purpose Center at wv You get an update on
Purpose Week on the Morgantown campus and talk about what's
happening there right now, rain in the area, cloud's sixty
(05:22):
five degrees. We'll be back on AM fourteen forty FM
one oh four point five w A Jr.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Right after this.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
five eight two fivey five. This is the talk of
the town.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It is ninety sixteen some rain in the area, cloud
sixty five degrees in the University city. This is the
Week of Purpose on the Morgantown campus of WVU. On
the phone, We've got the director of the Purpose Center,
Kate Slowbaum. Hey Kate, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Good morning, Mike, thanks for having me again today.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
He absolutely, it's a pleasure to have you. Now, let's
see give us an update of what is happening in
terms of Purpose week.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
All right. Well, when we talked earlier this week, we
were talking about some of the programming that we would have.
So so far, we've already reached over eight hundred students
in the classroom. We've had some events to get people
thinking about purpose and their clipped and strengths, which we'll
talk more about today. And we've really just been helping
people think about what that impact is that they want
to make.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Hey, you know, one thing I noticed I was taking
a look at your list of events, and you know,
sometimes we'll do a swat analysis strength weaknesses and things
like that, and it looks like maybe a part of
this week is a little bit of a motivational boost
kind of midway through the semester.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Absolutely, always talk to students about how things start off
pretty exciting and we have that optimism, and then as
things move forward in the semester, maybe you get a
little bit worn out, burned out, and so we can
actually think about our purpose to help us stay motivated
and remember that why why we're here, why we want
to get out of bed, why we want to show
up to class. So definitely a way to stay motivated.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And you know, one thing that I saw that I'd
like for you to reflect on is you're helping people
make friends, connections, personal connections.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Yes, so absolutely, building community is something that's really important
for everybody, but specifically when you're a college student, meeting
those trends, finding the people that you want to be with,
study with, hang out with that really helps you have
a good, solid experience. Plus, they are going to be
the people that you may start your career with, and
so we help them do that through a number of ways,
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just you know, talking about the things that we have
in commons, so if they have common purpose, helping them
find opportunities that may be exciting to them that they
may not have explored on their own, and then even
just in the classes, helping them navigate what classes they
might like to take together and building that community with them.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You know, Kate, the generation that is occupying classrooms as
we have this conversation sometimes gets a bad rap for
their lack of personal skills, but it would appear as
if post pandemic a lot of that is changing.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, I think you know, they might get a bad rap,
but we work with these students every single day and
they bring a lot of value to the table. They
may be a little bit different than how you or
I might interact with things, but they really bring a
lot of good into the world. We're seeing a lot
of relationship building skills when we start talking about their
clift and strength, so they definitely know how to build
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those relationships and they're hungry for that. They love social.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Connection now as we move out of Purpose Week, are
there any maybe maintenance activities on your part in order
to keep this message alive until the end of the semester.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Absolutely so. At WVU are constantly talking about purpose and strengths.
We actually have won a couple of global awards for
our strengths based work. So we have these conversations year round,
we have workshops, we're in the classrooms, we're doing different
engagement activities year round. So Week of Purpose is really
just a concentrated effort of these opportunities. But they don't
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stop at any point in the year.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, good deal, Kate Slowbomb. She's the director of the
Purpose Center. Anything big on the agenda today.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Today we're going to be in a couple of classrooms
talking about Clifton Strengths again, helping students understand what they
naturally do well and how they can do more of
that to enjoy their time on campus and beyond Well.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Kate, you've been extremely generous with your time and I
definitely appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Have a great day.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Absolutely take care of yourself. Kate Slowbomb.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
She's the director of the Purpose Center at West Virginia University.
The Week of Purpose runs through this this week. Now,
let's see, of course it is a wanted Wednesday here
in the University city, and also some trouble on the
roadways from Tuesday out on Mason Dixon Highway. On the phone,
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we've got mon County Sheriff Todd Forbes. Good morning, Sheriff,
how are you?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Good morning? How are you hey?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I'm doing good, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Wanted to remind everybody that you can go out to
Monengelia Sheriff dot gov and you can take a look
at anything that the sheriff and I are talking about
here this morning. Now, Sheriff, I guess let's talk a
little bit about Mason Dixon Highway. What can you tell
us about that?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Well, Mike, if you don't mind, I'd like to there's
something else in real quick before we get to that subject.
I want to remind everybody that this week is a
child past your Safety week, and Saturday morning, about nine
to eleven here in our office one sixteen Walna Street,
we're going to be doing child safety tea check. So
if anybody wants to stop by, then we have some
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people here that are going to make sure that the
teacher are passing in right and give a little education
about those. So we welcome everybody to come down for that. Hey,
that's true.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
No, you know, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Getting back to that, I've got a couple of grandkids
and I can tell you you just about need a
PhD to put a car seat in.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Well. Yeah, yeah, it's not as easy as it used
to be. You know. Of course we laid in the
back window whenever we were kids. Whenever those times are gone.
We do have some folks that are trained to do that,
and so we're more than happy to share that information
and that wisdom about getting those in there. Nothing could
be more important than having our kids saved when we're
on the roadways.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. And you're also right
about riding in the back window. That was fun though,
I'll say that.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
They was a lot more fun than it is now,
I'm sure. But those times that they are gone.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Okay, and now that that's going to be give us
those times again. Saturday morning, Please.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Nine am to eleven am here at one sixteen law
on that street in our office. We'll have some folks
here ready to ready to help out when they can.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Okay, great, now, let's turn our attention to Mason Dixon Highway.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
What happened out there, sheriff, So, yeah, and yesterday.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Initially I think the report was that it was a
head on collision. It was more so a side slight
type of collision. The problem with that is the two
things that intersected with each other were the gas tanks
from the vehicles. So we're very fortunate we didn't have
a fire, but a lot of diesel fuel got spilled
onto the roadway, which created the closure for such a
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long time. From about eleven am to about four thirty PM,
crewis were out there cleaning up.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Any significant injuries reported as part.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Of that, No, there were noticing significant injuries. I was
able to ascertain that one of the trucks, a locally
owned truck Anderson Excavation, was involved, along with a rise
in contracting out of New Salem because of the here,
the were the companies that were involved. And fortunately there
were no injuries and we're really fortunate I think that
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there wasn't some sort of a fire or explosion because
so much gas was was involved in this.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Well, that's good. It sounds like we were lucky.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And it also from talking with Mecca nine to one
one and talking with you throughout the day yesterday, it
sounds like the response was top notch.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I know that the Brook Cave and
the Castle Fire departments were there. There may have been
in some others. Those are the ones I know for sure. Also,
the Montague County hasmat and crew, which those guys are incredible.
H They were out there cleaning up. So we're fortunate
to have such good first responders.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Absolutely. Now did the Deep have to get involved in that, Todd?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
I believe they were there for some amount of time,
but that was later in the afternoon, once our personnel
had left the scene.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Okay, good deal.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now let's see it is a Wanted Wednesday, and I
believe that you've got a slate of featured felons you'd
like to tell us about, Dodd, Yeah, I had.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
The good news is we're starting to run a little
bit low on people to feature because we've ran so
many and we've captured so many, So that's a good problem.
The first fellow we want to talk about today is
David Ray Crawford. He's oneed for trespassing and failure to appear.
The second individual is the Kwan Goodie drug related charges
and failure to appear. Sherry murrat As also for afraid
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to appear, David Wiggins fellony, possession of a firearm from
a prohibited person, and lastly Timothy Williams for obstructing, possession
of a canoe substance and driving while licenses were suspended.
So if anybody has the information on that, we'd love
to hear from you. As always, we appreciate the tips
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we get from the community, and that's that's part of
what makes this work is that we have community involvement
and we really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
There are pictures and descriptions at Montagelia Sheriff dot gov.
Uh Sheriff help us understand how these backlogs develop.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Well, just on a day to day you know, a
lot of times what happens is a criminal complaint is
done on the person following an investigation. The person may
not be present at that time. All the rest are
made on scene forthwith. So after investigations we get warned
for people and then we don't encounter them for a while.
But you know, they either move or they're maybe they're
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trying to avoid capture in some instances, but it's just
it happens through natural causes. You know, they're not around
at the time that the warrant as signed, and then
it's just a matter of finding them and making them
answer to their to their crimes.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
How many how many of these cases are people that
maybe don't comply with the terms of probation or parole.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Yeah, that that's part of it. Certainly there's a few
of those. And then there of course, and you hear
me say this when I go down the list each week,
is people that were have been arrested, they posted on
and then they failed to come back to their court
here and a lot of them are those. You know
that that accounts for a lot of the people that
decide they're not going to go to Quarter. They forget
about Quarter. Who knows what the reason is, but they
didn't appear for their hearing, so that leads the case unadjudicated.
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So it makes us take a little action later.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Last thing I wanted to ask about Sheriff if I could,
is the school safety officers very very different than the
school resource officers. But I guess that program now is
we're just a few weeks into it.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
How's that going, Well, it's going great.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
We actually have. We have a school officer in every
school in our county every single day, so not always
is it all day. Sometimes it's proportions of days. Some
guys are sharing some schools, you know, schools are sharing
an officer, but somebody is at every single school every
single day. So we're really proud of that. It seems
to be working well. I don't want to knock on
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any wood, but I mean it's been pretty smoothy. We
have instances where we had to enact an anything different,
so we're blessed about that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
All right, well, Sheriff, hey, listen, appreciate your time today.
We'll get the word out about your featured felons, and
thank you for the Mason Dixon Highway information.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Yes, sir, thank you, and talking next week.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Absolutely take care of yourself, Sheriff Todd Forbes And of
course you'll be able to get information about the featured
felons that we spoke about at Montigilia sheriff dot gov.
And they also have some additional information about the Mason
Dixon Highway accident there as well. Coming up next, we're
going to do speak with mont County Delegate Anitra Hamilton
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in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Delegate
Hamilton made some comments on social media that seemed to
gain a lot of attention from from private endo viduals
and her fellow elected officials here in the area, and
we reached out to Delegate Hamilton, I guess very shortly
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after those comments were made. However, we were unable to
make contact with her later conversations. She was obviously very
very busy dealing with that and then also her work
as a delegate. Well, we're going to speak with her
after the Metro News break. We're going to find out
more information about those comments and exactly what she was
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trying to convey with those. We'll wrap the program up
with some representatives from from City of Morgantown. We'll be
talking about a special event coming up on Sunday afternoon
down on the Deckers Creek rail Trail to pay tribute
to some of the volunteers, some of the clean up
workers that have not only been just conducting everyday maintenance
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seen through the summer of twenty twenty five, how these
torrential rain events have washed out the rail trail in
many many places, and we've even seen the GoFundMe, the
fundraising efforts and the things that Ella Belling has had
to do to try to pull together. I use the
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word patchwork not in a derogatory term, but there have
been so many events that have been so frequent that
you can't lean on the same people all the time.
That's where the patchwork comes in. She's had to kind
of rely on a network of people in order to
address those issues. They'll be paying tribute thanking those workers
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at that event on Sunday. We'll talk about that coming
up at nine forty.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Now back to the Talk of the Town.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, good Wednesday morning, Welcome back to the program. Clouds
and sixty five degrees. There could be some light rain
where you are in the city of Morgantown and Metro
Newsaki Weather says there's an eighty percent chance of rain
for the remainder of the day. On the phone, we've
got mon County Delegate Anitra Hamilton. Good morning, Anitra, and
thank you for joining us.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
How are you, good morning, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I'm doing well, absolutely well. It's a pleasure to have
you on. Now let's see Anitra wanted to give you
an opportunity to talk about your social media comments, what
they meant, what you were trying to convey in the
wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Absolutely, thank you so much. First of all, I want
to say that violence is never okay and it will
never be the answer. And either one of my posts,
I never was condoning violence, nor was I a murder.
In my first post, I was simply viewing the immediate
and as we can see, the continued different responses of
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two tragedies that took place, and I simply drew a
comparison of those responses. My first post that was shared
was cropped and it did not convey my entire post,
which changed the entire context of my message. What was
shared removed at the end of my message where I stated,
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you know, don't judge situations, you know to basically find
your business, And in my first post, I was only
my message was really looking at two different situations, saying
that you know, two things could be true. You know,
you could look at a situation and draw stress from it,
and I could look at a situation and feel harm
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from it. But in either situation, you know, looking at
what's occurring nationally, not to judge the situation and to
simply mind your business. But that was cropped, so when
that post was shared, it totally you know, changed the
context of my message. My second post really just dealt
(22:16):
with the effects of racism and what racism does, and
it wasn't targeted toward any group of individuals. I began
the post by saying, you know, America has become accustomed
to people of notable reputation of people of no reputation.
And I also referenced in the post that it doesn't
matter whether you're Republican, Democrat or independent. You know, I
(22:39):
wasn't targeting anyone, but just speaking, you know, as a
black woman who has grown up in West Virginia, just
speaking on what the effects of what racism does. And
I just really feel both posts when they were shared,
I have been able to see some of the comments
(23:01):
and some of the articles that was written was taken
I feel out of context as it relates to the
message that I was trying to convey. But that was,
you know, the gist of my message, and both of
those posts really wasn't targeting anyone, but just really drawing
a comparison of the responses of the people in the
(23:23):
wake of two horrible tragedies that took place. And I
do want to state that, you know, Charlie Kirk should
have never died. And I know I never mentioned his
name and it's been referenced to him, but what happened
to him was horrible. He was a husband, he's a father.
It should have never taken place. You know, violence is
(23:44):
never the answer and it will never be the answer,
and we condone it on every.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Level, Delegate, and Nietra Hamilton is with us in a NIATRA.
One question that I've gotten about those posts is why
take him down?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I didn't take them down. That was the whole thing.
Those posters on my private page, they're still up. I
never took those posts down. Those was never on my
delegate page. Those was on my private page. Those posters
are still up. So again, these are all assumptions made
about me that were never true.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And I'm glad that you know we could bring you
on in order to set this straight. Now, another question
that I had was about the comparison, because you know,
in one of the comparisons I believe was the murder
of a Ukrainian national on a Charlotte train that was
(24:42):
committed by someone who had been arrested fourteen times previous,
and we're comparing that incident with an unprovoked killing of
I guess, just a college activist. What's the comparison.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I wasn't looking at the comparison. Wasn't looking at the
individuals committing the murder. It was looking at the responses
of the harm and the outpour that people was, you know,
looking at the comments that was being made. For instance,
the young man that was on the train that committed
(25:25):
the murder, the outpour against him was insane. You know.
It was a black individual that murdered a white lady.
He had several bouts with mental illness. Again, not judging
the situation. He harmed one lady. Looking at the comparison
with the second murder, and I wasn't looking at the murderer,
(25:47):
but looking at the harm. One person that has harmed many,
you know, with the statements that were made. So when
you look at I'm looking at the how the harm
was looking how we can compare the harm. That's what
I was looking at. I wasn't looking at the murderers,
because the young man that killed Charlie Kirk should receive
(26:08):
the full extent of the law, and the young man
that killed the lady on the bus, he's going to
receive The law failed him, the system felled him.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
But do you think, though, in a way, when we
just assume that words are injurious as I think I've
heard you say in the past, don't you think we
sell ourselves short in our ability to be able to
debate and have these conversations among us.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
No, I don't think that we sell ourselves short. I
think that's what makes us human. That's what makes us human.
And if we look at any type of debate, we
can see when debates change, when people get upset. It's
just what makes us human. It makes us realize the
essence of life. You know that some things that affect you,
(26:57):
you know, gives me the opportunity and the availability to
try to understand why it affects you in that matter,
you know, don't I don't believe it it takes away
from debate. I think it gives the debate more in
depth because it helps us to understand different individuals from
different walks of life as to why they respond to
(27:19):
words in certain ways. You know. So I don't think
it takes away. But what I can say, Mike, from
this situation, I have learned that words matter. And although
we know that it's a bit, it has impressed upon
me so much more that words matter. And I have
taken that away from this situation, and you know, thinking
(27:42):
of my words. You know, I've had the opportunity to
speak to so many constituents, so many thought leaders. I've
spoken to educators, pastors. I've taken the time to some
of my colleagues, some of my mentors, and I have
Republican mentors, you know, I have a mentor that cross
the out because I am a people builder, and you know,
(28:06):
if my words brought division with my message, you know,
going forward, I'm looking for ways to have more open
spaces of dialogue because my end goal, Mike, is unity.
People who know me know that I'm a people builder.
That's my goal, and you know that's my resolve as
a delicate and a state representative of West Virginia. That's
(28:27):
my end goal unity.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Moving forward, What are maybe some of the things you're
thinking about in order to promote unity.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Oh, my god, I've already started. I've already started. I
have created spaces to have open conversations on difficult conversations.
I am working on a program coming up to deal
with words concerning different things like how we speak concerning
(28:58):
our house list population, how we speak relating to race relations,
because we know that for even in twenty twenty five,
we still have a hard time dealing with race relations.
So how opening up these spaces to have these a
safe space to have these conversations, because words matter, and
I believe the more that we're able to talk about
(29:20):
them in a safe space, you know, having different thought leaders,
and not just politicians, but having thought leaders, pastors, community leaders,
different individuals in the room and the community, we're able
to understand each other on a deeper level and move
toward a greater level of unity.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Delli good A Nature Hamilton Anietra.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Really do appreciate you coming on the program and providing
that clarification.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Thank you very much, ma'am, thank you so much for
having me. And again I do want to say that
in no way was our condoning murder or political violence.
And again, as a delegate of my county, you know
my adal is unity and if my words about any
division again move them. I resolved moving forward is to
(30:10):
provide those open spaces of open dialogue. So I really
appreciate you reaching out giving me this opportunity. On those
that know me know I show up for my constituents,
on my county and for my state. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Make absolutely and I hope that maybe this will lead
to more collaboration as we move into the legislative session
between you and I.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
That's my hope.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Okay, Hey, thank you very much, Delegate Anitra Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Really do appreciate her time.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
When we come back, going to be talking about a
Sunday afternoon celebration along Deckers Creek. It's going to involve
a Grateful Dead tribute band and we're thanking some of
the volunteers and workers that make that trail what it
is today. It's coming up next on AM fourteen forty
FM one oh four point five w AJR.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It is nine forty nine, some rain in the Morgantown
area and sixty six degrees Metro Newsaki Weather says an
eighty percent chance of showers for the remainder of the day.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
In I have seventy two. We'll keep you updated on
that possibility.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
In studio, we've got Walt Sarquies and we also have
Morgantown Mayor Danielle Trumbull.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Good morning to both. How are you doing great?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Thank you, Micam, absolutely well, it's a pleasure to have
you here. Coming up on that Sunday from two until six.
It'll be beneath the South High Street Bridge. It is
the well why don't you Well?
Speaker 7 (32:01):
We're calling it dead all Along Live by the Creek,
and the concert is kind of the centerpiece of the event,
but the event is really to show off what's been
going on there in that portion of Decker's Creek and
the people who've been working there have been doing an
amazing job. Danielle as one of them, and there's a
whole bunch of people who have given their time and
(32:22):
energy in a way that I don't think I've seen
in my twenty five years here in Morgantown to this scale.
I've been a part of cleanup efforts, I've been a
part of groups doing stuff, and I've watched what people
do in this town for a long time, and this
is I think the first time I've seen this kind
of scale, with this kind of impact so quickly and
so visibly.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Well, you've got the mural, You've got there was a
comprehensive mulch project down there. There were several clean up
events down there from the man back up to the trail.
I guess you, Danielle, probably know a lot more than I.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
We've been working hard for the last twelve or eighteen months,
but especially this year along the Creek. We've been organizing
large scale volunteer days. We get anywhere from about twenty
people to fifty people per day, and we're able to
make a lot of things happen that way. We do
all of the planning and the prep, we get the
(33:21):
permits and the city dump trucks and all that fun stuff,
and people can just show up and put in a
few hours and really see the difference they're making in
the area.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Now, let's see Walt and a Grateful Dead tribute band.
They'll be performing the Grateful Dead Show from September of
nineteen ninety five at Golden Gate.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Park seventy five. That is, it's actually the same date,
same day, on a Sunday, twenty fifty years to the day. Oh,
we're going to be doing that show.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay, So that's why you picked the show.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Yeah, that show is it was important in The Grateful
Dead's history because at the time they were about to
release the nineteen seventy five album Blues for Allah, and
that was probably their most complex record that they had
made up until that point, the most musically complex record,
and they were also on a band on the verge
of not being a band anymore, possibly because they had
(34:18):
come off the road after ten years, needing to rethink
about what they were doing, and instead of disappearing, not
only did they come back after releasing that record, but
they spent another thirty year or fifty years up to
that point to today. If you're talking about what Dead
and Company still does today with the remaining living members
(34:40):
of the Dead, the music just never stopped right that
from that point on. It that was kind of the
replanting of the seed, the rebirth of the Grateful Dead
at that point. And so it was significant to us
being the sixtieth anniversary of The Grateful Dead and the
fiftieth anniversary of that show, and the thirtieth anniversary of
(35:01):
Jerry Garcia's death, which kind of marks like the halfway
point where it just you figure when he died, there
was not gonna be a Grateful Dead anymore. But not
only did that not happen, Now there are hundreds of
other bands just like our band dead, all along around
the country doing what we do because this music is
it connects with so many people.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Now I'm really tied on time. I apologize for that.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
But tell me how do you rehearse to reproduce a show?
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Well, we just with this kind of set list. We
go with what's on the set, and then we think
about what the Grateful Dead would do, not specifically what
notes they would play, and we try to accomplish the
sound and the spirit and keep it on the fun side.
You know, Grateful Dead was kind of known for playing
long jams and that was for them for the audience,
(35:53):
and it was indulgent in a way, but also exploration.
But we try to keep things fairly tight so that
everyone can dance and have a good time. And in
this case, because we are giving everybody an opportunity to
see what's been done along the river, we want to
keep it as tight as we can and let them
enjoy the surroundings, especially what our friends at morgantel Ford
(36:15):
have been doing, and so that they have time to
see that and see the mushroom trail.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Beauty gotta wrap things up.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
We'll be back after this on AM fourteen forty FM
one oh four point five W A.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
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