Good News Presented by Mosquito Authority: Columbus A Wonderful City and Helping the Homeless

Mindy talks about how great Columbus is as a city. Mikaela talks about how to help youth experiencing homelessness. 

Episode Transcript

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Time now for our field. Bettersayment because Mikayla, Because good news matters.
Mindy Dreyer brought to you each weekby Mosquito Authority. No mosquitos,
no past, no contracts guaranteed.A season without mosquitos is definitely good news.
Check it out at bugs bite dotcom. All right, Mindy,
in the road or on the roadand the way back from Madison, Wisconsin,

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we're gonna do a little good news, Mindy. What do you got
well? First of all, headinghome with a seven and a half hour
drive makes it a lot better aftera win. If we would have lost,
it would have felt like a seventeenand a half hour drive home a
rod they got that jub But you'regonna love my good news story because you
know, I love people. Ilove to meet new people. So Randon

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and I were at this hotel andI was talking to this man over breakfast
and he lives in Indianapolis, buthe is circling around the nation right now
because he just wants to move somewhereand he's open to anywhere. And one
of the places that he looked atwith Columbus, Ohio and I, So
what'd you think of Columbus. Iwas kind of blown away with his response.
So after he told me that,I said, can I record that?

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Can I interview you? Because Iwant everyone in central Ohio and the
state of Ohio to hear what youhave to say about the city where we
all live and work. Do youwant to hear what he said? Mccaelem,
Yes, Okay, Hannah, goahead and play it all right?
All right, So you were drivingto Columbus looking for different houses. What
did you think when you saw thecity of Columbus. I was mesmerized.

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I've been all across the country andColumbus was the first city where I didn't
see any trash, any malfeasance,any graffiti. Everything was in beautiful shape.
The buildings were beautiful, The interstateswere beautiful, grassy areas were beautiful.
That downtown was beautiful. It wasto me kind of like a mixture

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of Utopia and the a Barbie movie. I could not find one thing wrong
or out of place with with Columbusat all. Just kind of shook me
to my core because that's exactly whatI was looking for in this city.
So way to go, Columbus.Keep it up. You told me that

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Utopia in a Barbie movie somewhere inbetween. I think when we live there,
you take things for granted, youknow, and we compare to maybe
other vacation places because we live there. We wanted to beautiful backgrounds to go
away from home, but maybe sometimeswe got to look what's right under our
nose of what we're blessed to have. I love that guy for saying that,

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and the fact that he knew thatmuch was willing to say it like
basically on your phone, like asyou've recorded it. That's that's like the
best testament Columbus, Ohio can getright over a breakfast in a hotel and
love it. And you know,it's not that we're not without our issues.
You and I know that. It'sjust I think we handle them and
we come together as a community toaddress them. For the most part.

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We may not always agree, butI think we do clean up a lot
and get a lot of stuff done. Yeah, And that was from a
total outsider's view when he was drivingthrough the city of Columbus, So it
was a big compliment to our city, a big compliment. So I have
a good news thing that stems fromlike one of those obstacles that we have,
but is really proof of people comingtogether, and those of you listening

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wherever you're listening today has the opportunityto take part in this mindy. Have
you ever heard of sleep out herein Columbus? I have not, huhuh.
So it's sleepout invites the community toreally shine a light on the needs
of youth in Franklin County who experiencehomelessness. There are three thousand kids each
year who are homeless in Franklin Countyfor a number of reasons. I had

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no clue about that number. No, that didn't know. That's sad.
It is sad. But the HuckleberryHouse, I know you've heard of the
Huckleberry House. They do such greatwork for these kids. It's been around
for a long time, and sothis sleepout raises in important funds for their
mission and their programs. Well,it turns out that for people who want
to sleep out to raise money andcome together in solidarity for youth experiencing homelessness,

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you can sign up to do thisstarting this week. So on April
eighteenth at lower dot Comfield, they'llbe over there from five thirty to seven
thirty formally opening registration for the sleepout, which is I think late May.
It's after Memorial Day weekend, soyou can go over to lower dot com
on the eighteenth, which what today'sthe fourteenth, So money is at Wednesday,

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that's Wednesday, and you can learna little more about it register see
their peer to peer fundraising page.There's so much good that is going on
with this, and you have anopportunity to really lift up these youth who
need lift it up here in theCentral Ohio area. And I'd say that's
another great thing about Central Ohio.You know what, I think people really

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do care about one another and wantto help each other out. Yeah,
it's one of the the reasons thatwe have stayed mindy right, Like we
love this community. You've grown uphere, you love this community. There's
so many wonderful things here. Yeah. Now, both of our all four
of our kids were born here.Yeah, you have to stay now.
Yeah. Now I am I aman Ohioan. I am an Ohio and

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I'm a Central Ohioan. And youknow, a story that really shows why
so much is good in Central Ohiois coming up after the top of the
hour. You have a great interviewset up. I cannot wait to talk
to this woman. Long time belovedhigh school softball coach at Buckeye Valley and
her parents about a year ago diedin a house fire. So the community

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came together to support this family.Well, now the family is coming together
to support give it right back tothe community. Awesome story. It's right
after the break. This is whatmatters on six' ten a WTVN