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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
From Studio A in Sunny Florida. Welcome to Beauty and
the Beach Radio where it's all about who's beautifying Vero Beach.
Today's show is brought to you by Dale Sawrenson real Estate.
And here's your host and Glamour Girl makeup artist Sindy Guests.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hey, guys, welcome back to Beauty in the Beach radiosin
he gets your host worts all about who's beautifying ver
Beach and you guys. I have two incredible leaders in
our community here with me today helping me ring the
bell for the Salvation Army. Technically, we're in a little
bit of a competition. We're calling it Battle of the Bells.
We are going to find out today on air who
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won the contest for raising the most money.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
For the Salvation Army. So we're going to get right
down to it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I have two guests with me and one of them
decided he wanted to do a call in, so we're
gonna we're gonna dial dial that person up. And my
first guest, I want to introduce you to our first
bell ringer. His name is Robert Pauw. He is owner
of bill Brighton associates. When he is not building things,
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he's either in his garage tinkering, or he's on the
ice ring playing hockey.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
So please welcome to the show, Robert.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Pau Hey, Wow, thousands in the show today, Robert.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So you decided to call a friend to help you
out with this whole Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Tell friend of mine. He's a principal owner of Bobby's Plumbing.
His name is Tracy, and I'm gonna give him a
quick ring and see if he might want to get
me out of jail so to speak.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You know, right, I like this, I do. We might
do this next year. I told you hostage on the.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Store here, and I'll tell him I need something fixed
for plumbing.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
All right, Cindy, can we down him up? All right?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Here we go, ding dank Tracy you there?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yes, hey, buddy, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Good?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Just want to let you know that I'm on the
you know, the radio today with all my glamour and
we're raising money for the Salvation Army here, trying to
get a few dollars for you know, a lot of dollars,
a lot of a lot of dollars for a lot
of dollars. I did listen. Plumbing business is good. You
know it's it's I know it is. And so every
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time you beep when you go by my office, I
think of you and I'm like, well, let me let
me give Tracy a call and ask him for some
help today. So there's the reach whire's the ass here
and that you're you're either tinkering in the garage or
or working on your ice playing ice hockey. Well, I
haven't skated for a while. Cindy jumped the gun. There,
it's been a couple of I I know that's I
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haven't in a while, but I've been getting.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
More tinkering is more of the the whole aspect.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yeah, this is true. Well we'd like the tinker. So anyways, Tracy,
please if you could give us a donation, we appreciate
it very much and thank you for your support in
our community and everything that you and Bobby's Plumbing has
been doing. You're a pillar here. So so once again,
thank you, and there's my reach out to you.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So, Tracy, we need a dollar amount because we're totaling
it up by the end of the show.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
So Robert, I don't know where he is with his donations,
but I need.
Speaker 9 (03:30):
You take change.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
I do, I do. Listen, I have an advocus. I
can handle that. Not a problem.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
All right. What was she put in the bucket from you? Tracy?
All right, thank you sir, Love you man, Superman.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
All right, Tracy, you have a great holiday.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Wow. Your friends they're so animated, Robert.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Yes, yes, that was very nice.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
She's iring one hundred dollars extra into the bucket for Robert. You, guys,
we have one more bell ringer that I'm going to
introduce to you.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
To you.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
She she is a new friend, but like an old soul,
like I feel like when I'm around her, I've known
her forever. She is so precious and I roped her
in and she is, uh, she's pretty cool. So she
serves as district aid to state Representative Robert Bracket. She
serves on Grant's subcommittee for the Children's Services Advisory Council,
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and works closely with a mentally mental health association. She
also sits on the board of the tax Payers Association.
Everybody stand up straight around her. When she's not working,
you can catch her running five k's or half marathons.
Please welcome Susan Naguire.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Okay, how are you guys for having me?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yes, I'm kind of surprised you didn't run here, and
you're cutely SunFlake.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
This morning we did do a run, you know, I
had a you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, SunFlake, sunflowers,
the flake.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
It's fine whatever. So okay, So now I have been
bell ringing for years.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Robert's been one of my top bell ringers, so I
kind of brought you in as a rookie this year. Okay,
So you were so brave to just jump right in.
You said yes before you really knew what you were doing.
So I appreciate that enthusiasm. So first of all, I'm
going to ask both of you, you each get like
thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Why did you say yes to the Battle of the Bells?
Robert go.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
I said yes to the Battle of the Bells is
because I had missed the opportunity in the previous year,
and I've enjoyed it so much over the years that
I look forward to it. And when you said that
you were going to be participating this year, I'm gun
ho you point, I'll go there. I'll do it anything
because I love what you do and you pull everybody
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together this in the UNI, orchestrate everything so well. So
thank you for that because it makes you stop and
reflect and gives me moments to say, you know, there's
a lot to be grateful for. Other people have needs
and giving back is important. So it gives me an
opportunity to fulfill that open part of what I have
in my life.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
I love that season battle the bells well, I know,
honestly part of it was you. I love what you
do in our community, I really do. I love that
you do orchestrate everything, organize everything's great. But as a
committee member with SEASAG, I saw for firsthand, you know
what solft Asian Army does. I've always just known them
for bell ringing, and then when I realized how robust
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those programs really are and how they serve the community,
you know, it's almost like the low silent underdog doing
such good work. And you know that public service is
really important. So I love nonprofit I love what they
do and when their boots on the ground like that,
even a dollar is something that is remarkable and helps
and it goes a long way in our community, especially
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because the dollars stay here. So I really appreciate.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
That, and I appreciate you saying that. Susan and Robert,
I know you would agree.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You know, anybody can make a difference in this campaign.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
A dollar truly does make a difference.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You don't need to write a check for a million dollars,
not even one hundred dollars, thank you, Tracy, But I
mean even a quarter even your your your spare change
for that ice cream sandwich you were going to get.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
At school, like it does make a difference.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And I think that allows people anybody to jump on
board and feel like they can make change.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Literally absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So let me jump to major, Major Phillips. So you're
here representing obviously the Salvation Army. Thank you so much,
love love, love the Salvation Army. My mom was was gosh,
is there a major?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Is there a captain? Okay? And she was one of
those in the Salvation Army holds a dear place to me.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
We've always you know, volunteered and supported them as a
family growing up. And I love the story of how
the cattle got started. And so many people hear the
bell ring every year, and I want them to understand
where this came from, where the cattle got started.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And then I want you to share what it means
to our community when people donate to the kettle. Well.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
Sure, and the story of the origin of the kettle
is quite distinctive. It started back in eighteen ninety one
with an officer who was a captain, Captain Joseph McPhee,
and he was in San Francisco, California, and he was
originally from Liverpool, England, and where he came from, there
was something called a Simpson pot they would do to
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help feed people during times of distress. And he remembered
that from his childhood when he was stationed in San Francisco,
and along came this Christmas season and he had about
a thousand people that he wanted to be able to feed,
and he harkened back to that time in his youth
in Liverpool and said, let me try that here. So
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he found a what's called the crab pot, and he
set it up right on the wharf and he made
just a little hand painted sign on the moment it
said keep the pot boiling, which you know, that might
seem like an archaic phrase to us, but everybody knew
exactly what it meant and what he was out there
to do. And it was a huge success. He was
able to do exactly what he set out to do.
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And then that campaign, that approach of getting the public
involved is putting it before people and letting their hearts
do the rest, started spreading first to other seaside type
towns because that was the natural extension, and then it
just kept rolling on from there. I always look at
it as when people go out and ring the bell,
that's their opportunity to step right into like a Norman
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Rockwell moment. It's a piece of Americana that you're continuing
in taking part of and incorporating into yourself, into your family,
into your children, and particularly here in Vero, it's one
volunteer And just that stunned me when I got here
that the there is so much volunteer enthusiasm in this community. Really,
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you guys are rocking it. And I just want you
all know that thank you major.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
That is so sweet.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
So you know, there are so many organizations in this town.
We are very philanthropic in this community. What does Salvation
Army do with the money raised here? Does it stay
in Indian River County? And then what does it go towards?
Speaker 10 (10:23):
Sure all the money stays here. We don't send it
off to help somebody else somewhere else. It's all designated
for this area. And every command you go, every place
the Salvation Army goes, it functions tailored to the community.
So the services that we have here are dictated by
the community and what they feel is a priority. We
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partner with several churches currently to do on site feedings
three times a week. We operate a pantry which serves countless.
Especially right now with the food and security issues that
we've had, the demand for our pantries services have just
had shot through the roof, and we're I'm happy to
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say that we've had all the support we needed not
to miss a beat. Everybody at comes to get help
has been able to receive help. And that's not good
on us. That's good on you.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I know it's like we want to support you, but
we don't. In other words, you know, we know that it's.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Going towards people that truly need help, and we wish
you know that that wasn't the case.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
We don't need it exactly. So I'm going to change
gears Major.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I'm going to go back to Robert and Susan and
you know, Robert, when I had Salvation Army on the show,
probably five or six years ago, it was my first
time having them on to promote bell ringing, and I
was so inspired at the end of the show that
that's how our bell ringing group got started.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Because I thought, you know what, why not put you know,
our money where our mouth is. Why not go out
there and be bell ringers.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
But before I bell rang I will be honest, and
I'm embarrassed to say this major, but I would kind
of shy away from the bell ringers. I'm like, oh
my gosh, there they are again, there, you know, And
I'm so sorry because I'm very much I give to
the community. But you know, after a while, when you've
been to publics five times during the week and you
have five rings, you know, But now I will put it.
I don't care how much cash. And if I've already
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donated a dollar or two there was a.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Share, I'd sit next to the person and so let's
talk shop for.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Now I do, I say hello and I say thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Robert, what was your perception before bell ringing and after
bell ringing?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Uh? Before bell ringing? I you know, in younger days,
I really didn't understand the Salvation Army and where the
where the proceeds went and what what type of charitable
or what type of background the whole Salvation Army was
geared around. Got a little bit of an education over
the years, uh with volunteerism and how that how that works,
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and realized how significant an impact that the Salvation Army
does make in a lot of communities, not just ours,
but all across the country. So that being said, it was, uh,
you know, just when I knew what it was. And
then Cindy, the way you put it together was fantastic.
Cindy would get primo location in front of Public's which
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is centrally located between the beach and the mainland and everything,
so you get a lot of traffic. And Cindy always
put Mike and I at high noon during lunch it
has to be bell ringing. But Cindy would get there
in the morning and have a table and this you'd
have volunteers from the high school. They'd be playing music
and every hour there's rotation. A team of people would
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come in and kick the bucket off. It was fun.
I thought, it's great, and it's I love, you know,
being a socially adapt person. Ha. Anyways, I like going
out in front of the store and meeting all these
people because it's it's great. You get to dress up,
you have fun, and people want to give. They are
just nervous because they just didn't really know what it's
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all about. But engaging with them as they're walking in
and walking out, all of a sudden, you can extract
from people, not their money, but you can think distract
what their real heart felt strings are And next thing
you know, they're walking away and they're feeling great about
themselves as well as you are.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Yeah, it's fantirely I love that. I love that Robert,
you know, Susan, So we brought you in.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You're rookie and so you had a week to you know,
raise the money and I love there's a picture of
you and I'm not sure where you are.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
It's like a cafe.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, tell us maybe what it meant to you to
ring the bell and to get collections in your cattle?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
What did that feel like? And how was the response?
Speaker 8 (14:32):
You know? So it was cute because I went in there.
So shout out to Beebs Bebs Coffee shop. It's a
homegrown Sebastian Rosery and a good friend of mine, Robert.
He's just a great, great pillar in the Sebastian area,
bringing coffee back to life. And I go there all
the time. I went in there and I said, hey,
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I'm like, I'm ringing the bell. He goes get out.
He's like, what else are you? I mean, I don't,
oh actually, and it's totally fine out Like ignorance is great.
I'm like, give you a coffee and I'll tell you
exactly what I'm doing and maybe it'll make sense after coffee.
And he's like, all right, all right, I'm like put
some cash in there. I'm like, you know, this is
what we're doing. But previously you slated that, you know,
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you asked, you know, like what was the perception of
ringing that bell? And I remember going up in New
York City and Christmas was so magical, and part of
that magic was the bell ringers. And I remember very
very vividly that all of the bell ringers were older.
It was like Grandma and Grandpa was like mister and
missus Claus, you know.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
So it's like they're.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Always so cute and so seet and I never really
understood what the mission and vision was, but I always
knew that I wanted to as a kid to put
a dollar in or some coins in there. I loved
I remember just loving the sound of the coins dropping
at the bottom of the tin, and I just remember
those moments. But then I, you know, I got older,
and you know, life happens, right, and I knew a
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lot of struggling moms and Selvy Army came in clutch
with their food where they're clothing. And then I became
a Salvation Army mom at one point because I was
such a young mom and somebody redirected me there because
one year my car got broken into and all my
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stuff was in there at the time, so everything got stolen,
my wallet, everything, and I had no Christmas, Like that
was my Christmas.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
So Salvation Army gives me chose.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
So some one of my girlfriends came in and she's like, hey,
this is what they do. Hurry up and go there.
And I happened to know the sweet little lady. I'll
never forget her. She was in there and she's like,
what are you doing here now? And I was like,
oh my god, I gotta tell you. So I tell
her and they just wrapped my kids up with so
much love, and they didn't even tell them that it
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was Salvation Army. They gave me the gifts. I got
to wrap it and put it under the tree and
they didn't even know. It was the sweetest thing ever.
So I'm very grateful for that. And so that was
the perception.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, I did not know the story, you guys, So
that is precious.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
That is so precious. Wow, and it's funny.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
That was one of the things I was going to
ask Major is to give us a story of a real,
uh you know, situation where somebody got helped.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
And wow, there you are right there. Major.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
We're going to go to a break and we are
going to find out they're going to count the kettles
and they're gonna we're going to find out who.
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Speaker 4 (20:12):
All right, the moment you've all been waiting for. I
got to say, I am so nervous.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I've never done this, this whole battle of the bells.
Before I got Susan here, I got Robert here, I
got myself. We were battling each other to raise the
most money for Salvation Army during their cattle season. And
we have with us, We've changed the guards. We have
a major lynn with us today from the Salvation Army.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Hello, good to be here, Welcome to Beating the Beach radio.
So have you ever done anything like this before?
Speaker 9 (20:42):
I've done some TV interviews in a couple of radio interviews.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
It's been a while, Okay, So yeah, well let's get
you back into the game.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So we had a week as Susan and Robert and
myself had a week to raise the money to see
who raise the most for their.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Cattle and are you ready to make the announcement? Oh
my god, Okay, I'm so ner. Okay, third place go.
Third place was Susan. Yeah coming, she raised six dollars.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Okay, Yet the cope and so I ended up after
the fact, somebody reached out to me right before I
got here, and I don't know what their donation is
going to be, so when my phone turns on, I'll
give that to you.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, I told them last year we started the show
with a buck, so anything over a dollar was a win.
So way to go, said, she's six times that.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
She doesn't get all the money she raised awareness.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I had so many people talk to me and they
didn't realize that Salvation Army was still around. I was surprised.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Whoa did she get her prize? She did?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Okay, you've got to hold your prize for the camera.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Yeah, third place, I love it. I love that, all right, okay.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
Second place, the second place with one thousand and ten dollars, Robert.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
Come right away.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah, my five France. Well, thank you, Robert. That's amazing.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Well that's wonderful. Well, thank you everybody. And I want
to thank everyone that you know supported our group and
our team. And it does mean a great, a great
deal to be able to call on people to help
us with this this question.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Great.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Yes, absolutely, that was so sweet.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I love that. That's amazing, Robert.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Yes, thanks for the trophy. I love it.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Just a place a change in their first change for
the cattle.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Right, that was a whole.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Represent Yeah, I'm going to see it's not going to
make the same sound that you were.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Talking about, right, well, can I tried.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
It's going to be wonderful. Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
All right.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
So with one thousand, five hundred and fifty seven dollars
and seventy cindy.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Nice job.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Oh god, thank you so much. Just carry my word.
Oh my god, I'm so listen. I gotta tell you now.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
So this is what it feels like in first place.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
It so Robert's always been first place, and I was
scared to death to ask Robert to go against him
because he always always was first place.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
So the fact that nice job, nice job, she came
in fear.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
So she did say, yeah, he scared me into I mean,
thank you, mom. She even sent me a check from
Virginia I gave her.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I was like, all right, you got a week to
get it in. So, uh, anyway, this was fine.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I'm so glad Robert, Susan, I'm so glad you were
part of this fun journey with me.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
It's it's been wonderful. We'll have to continue talking about
the rest of the season because I'm sure that we're
all going to meet up again.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yes, this is the kis absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Any final words you have about thirty seconds, Major, any
final words with getting people involved with the kettle with
the kettle.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
No, when you see that red kettle, you can always
come by our office. If you don't see a red kettle,
if people don't know that, we're still around. But thank
you all so much for the pennies, for the dimes,
the nickels, the quarters. We take it all and we'll
put it to good use. If you don't have your
angel yet, we have lots of places where.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
You can get an angel. You can come buy our
office as well. We have angels there as well.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
So all right, I just want to thank you so much,
Major Philip, Major Lynn, Robert, Susan Ashley out there, Keisha thecounter,
the accountant. Thanks you guys. Make it a wonderful holiday.
Put that coin in that bucket.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
We love you, Thank you, cheers, Bye
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Bye, so Cud