KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter (Mon, 19 May, 2025)

KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter on Mon, 19 May, 2025

Episode Transcript

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This segment sponsored by our friends at the All News.
Sammy's Restaurant Sammy's is now open in Kalamesa at Exit
eighty eight off the ten Freeway, next to the Jack
in the Box in the former Bob's Big Boy Restaurant.
Not to name drop, but Sammy's in the former Bob's
is a lot like Norms. It has an extensive menu
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Sammy's is a great place to dine. Their menu is
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and chicken and an expansive menu. You won't go hungry
and you won't go broke at Sammy's. You can come
meet Sammy and his family. Sammy was a chief cook
for Norms for years and it shows in his menu.
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private meeting room available for parties of fifteen or more
on a first come, first serve basis. Sammy's is now
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eight at the ten Freeway in Kalamesa. Look for the
Big Boy statue. It's still there. We thank Sammy for
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At What's Up Team, This is Robert Porter with the
I Love Sammergo County Radio show, missing it Beyonni Lockhart
and motivational Realizations. Man, I can't wait for the Energy
of Positive Thought to be back next week, but he
will be and we'll see him then. Oh actually, wait
is next week Memorial Day?

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (07:41):
Well, wait, we do have a day off.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
We do have a day off, so then we'll see
him at the week after that, and I believe that's
June second, and we have a supervisor, Baka coming on
that day, so it should be a really nice show.
But today we have of course Eric hiding out engineer
in the background here and would would we have our

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co host today to help me out Tanya Hensley from
Talk of the Town.

Speaker 7 (08:10):
Tanya Roads Hensley, how are you doing?

Speaker 2 (08:12):
And today we have Kai King from Stronger Together and
is the Pulse the same thing or so we're Stronger
Together and that's the main organization. And then the Pulse
is the new space that you have downtown.

Speaker 9 (08:32):
Yes, sir, okay, and we're going to get into this.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
This is going to be exciting.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Get that.

Speaker 6 (08:36):
Then we have a Guadaloupe Duran correct. Yeah, and you're with.

Speaker 13 (08:43):
Micro Enterprise Collaborative of Inland, Southern California. We assist small
businesses and entrepreneurs.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Cool and we'll get into some of those things that
you provide for small businesses. But first I would like
to mention our sponsors, Golden Pizza and Wings, Golden and
Highland or Olive in Watermen right over there by the
Waterman Discount Mall. Their new deal is seven fifty five
plus tax all day, every day. Me and Eric will
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bring it to just go right here at the station.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
True, head on.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Over there, get that seven fifty five plus tax, and
maybe get me a chicken salad too, if you're at it,
and bring it on over here to the station.

Speaker 6 (09:25):
We'll love it.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
You want to help your kids out on a Friday,
just get them some good foods so they can go
play video games.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Get them a pizza. Definitely head on over there and
get them a pizza.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
You want to come on in here and treat Eric,
our engineer, like a king, bring him to pizzas.

Speaker 9 (09:42):
Please.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
I'm begging you, guys, and please please head on over
there and visit.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Teddy's a good man, and we do appreciate all the
help they provide. Our show PAL Charter Academy over in
Muscow middle school, high school, and summer school. So right
now there are getting They just did their graduation, so
moving into summer school. But Pale provides the high quality
instruction every child deserves. More information at PAL at pals

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I me know, info at palcenter dot org. Info at
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seven seven zero zero two. Now give a call over there.
And they have an incredible program team. I'm talking they've
brand new automotive, bit, audio visual weight, brand new field exercise, uh, cooking.

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I mean, like I'm trying to think of all the
different things we're doing there. Plus on the weekends they
often have a food bank for the community to come through.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
So they do a lot with students, and then they're
they're building up Moscow making that area just looks so
beautiful and a place kids really want to be to
go to school.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Kind of kind of fun there too, because they have
like all the amenities of like it looks like Beverly Hills.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
Man, right, So if you're interested in uh, and maybe.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Your kid needs a little extra like there are kids
that need extra and maybe they are the type of
kid that sometimes gets a little mind excited and they
need to sit in the rec room and in the
chair and put their feet up and talk to a counselor.

Speaker 6 (11:28):
And if you're you have a child like that, this
is a perfect place for you.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
Have smaller class sizes, able to focus on the kids,
give them more one on one attention. It's just a
completely different environment.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
And why I'm putting too much time in it not
just because they're my sponsor, because I've seen what they're
doing and I'm like, wow, Like I didn't really understand.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Charter schools before.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
I thought like they kind of sometimes make them portray
like they're taking away from public schools. But what I
realize is that public schools aren't forever everybody. There's gotta
be other things, even homeschool. Now I realize you got
to do it all man, because some kids will excelling
other things.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
Right.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
So, uh, you know, if you're interested in giving your
kid a head start or you want to, you know,
summer school is not just for the bad kids.

Speaker 7 (12:17):
Right, you can it's kidding ahead, yeah, And also you.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Know it's fun all right, You can have fun being
social during summer school, so you know, enroll your kids
in some summer school. Now, I'd like to mention our
I love Sam Ferdandino stand Out of the Week. Whoa oh,
I accidentally left the audio on my phone. I'm sorry
about that, man.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
I just are you allowed to say Braden Feart on
the air?

Speaker 9 (12:48):
I believe you are.

Speaker 8 (12:49):
Okay, now that I know the notifications on I just
want to send you text messages the whole show.

Speaker 7 (12:56):
We'll call them.

Speaker 6 (12:58):
Okay, okay, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Michael Sigura from from the Garcia Center for the Arts,
the current, the director over there is the current.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
I love Samonio stand Out of the Week, Austin.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
I want to thank Michael for all his hard work
in the community, especially with the arts. And then of
course his wife Mariam and their team. They're from Sam Maynadino.

Speaker 6 (13:22):
They love it. Michael went away to.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
School, got his master's degree, came back to Sam Bernardino.

Speaker 6 (13:29):
Right, that's what we need. We need people to go
out to school, go out and get that.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Experience, go start a business and then come bring it
back here, help us rebuild team.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
It takes us coming back and we can do it.
We can do it. Together.

Speaker 7 (13:47):
So I want to talk about that a little bit,
just a scosh one of the things, and Michael's a
great example of that and what you said, but there's
so much more that goes with it. And what I
mean by that is it's the heart. Because I've seen
people like you and I basically all of our lives.
Maybe a little bit of time away. You know, I

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lived away for some elementary years and college years and
came back and did and do for our city. But
I think people people that come here and fall in
love with Samonardino, and I can name some that have
really made huge differences. Mike Gallo was one. You know,
he wasn't from here, but by the time he lived
here and he did, he did more than a thousand

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people that are from this area.

Speaker 6 (14:34):
And still those fruits of his labor are bearing.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
Results, absolutely, And so I think a big part of
it is that heart, that love we have for Samonardino, and.

Speaker 6 (14:46):
That's what we do what we do right right, the
biggest cheerleaders in town.

Speaker 7 (14:50):
Yeah, hearts find hearts. I say that It's true, so true.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
All right, and thank you Michael and Merriman.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Like I know, it's not gonna be easy restarting all
the work over there at the Garcia said of the
arts and turning it into your new vision as the
new director. Right, We're gonna be patient with you and
and and look at and see all the incredible stuff
that you're coming up with. I I already noticed he
as a weekly what's going on in the weekend post.

Speaker 9 (15:21):
That's awesome.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
They're doing a lot with the community garden.

Speaker 7 (15:25):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
I just think that that, uh, that that space in
itself is going to.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Be able to blossom and maybe we work with with
other groups and spaces in the community, right for sure? Yeah,
I mean because because this is uh, this is how
we're gonna build sam Renandino back as through teamwork.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
There's been enough of this. I can do it on
my own, or I'll get there on your back and
then not work with you anymore.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Like I like, that's just there's too much of that stuff.
That's all gonna end now when the money's gone, now the.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
Free money's gone.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Only the people that really work hard are gonna have
those non for profits, right, Only the people that can
prove the data with their actual financials laid out, proving
that they can bring in a matching some all these
things because the crants are gonna dry up. Federal funds
are gone, right, so it's gonna be up.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
To Cali to handle it. Well, Calli's got a deficit,
So where's there gonna cat.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
It's gonna come from all the special stuff you know
that we love, right, So we got to be prepared
for this. By working together, it gets a little bit
past that possibility of maybe losing out a whole team,
because if you lose your organization, that just hurts Sam Renardino,
if you lose your space and everything.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
Because you don't have the money.

Speaker 9 (16:45):
Right.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
That's why if we work together, there's a better chance
that will be successful. So I'm building us up now.
We gotta work together. But we got something to add.

Speaker 7 (16:54):
I do yes of just working together and what it
landed and where it's going. So you know, we had
love your Block come out recently.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
The grant Yes, yes, and you did a lot of
work with that.

Speaker 7 (17:08):
I did a lot of work with that, and I
received the top funding to do a mural up at
Western Regionals and partnering with Western Regionals, they're matching the
funding and so that'll put that back in the community.
I know when we were on the Arts and Historical
Preservation Commission that it was for every dollar you put

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in in arts, it was three dollars that brought back
to the city. So that ten thousand dollars going into
that up there will bring back thirty thousand dollars. And
I really think more because look at how many people
we get at Western Regionals, from the twelve states everywhere.
They're going to want to take selfies in front of it,

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photos in front of it. We're getting the kids involved.
They're going to have a whole rainbow of handprints from
all the kids. Like, it's going to be truly amazing.
And they're unveiling it on opening night for baseball, so
it's gonna be amazing for that.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Okay, well that sounds like unity in the game. Yeah,
it's like it's like, actually, you bring all the pieces
of the puzzle together and you actually get a good result,
and then that produces like good memories, pictures and stuff
for the future. Right, we want that's the ultimate goal,

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is to create nostalgia for our kids, right, and then
they'll want to do nice things later on.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Right, they don't have it all?

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Right, Well, that's pretty cool, and that has brought to you,
Thank you Michael Sagura and I love San Marino. Stand
Out of the Week is brought to you by Mulk
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Speaker 6 (18:51):
I don't always want to say price club Man Costco.
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Speaker 7 (18:59):
Well, they were about spreads. One started one, the other
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Speaker 2 (19:03):
So go ahead, coach so right across the street from Costco,
and it's it's it's like a foodies dream. They give
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Speaker 6 (19:16):
Of you with all the vegetables. It's really good.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Team go out and try it and uh, you know,
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Mochi Nut and BBQ Korean Fried Chicken and there are

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some really good food, so go have breakfast and then
have lunch.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
Right nice and good people there. Thank you, Cindy Top
for all you've done for us. And how do I
request city services? I'm gonna ask you a question on
this one. You're ready for the pop quiz guy you're
asking me?

Speaker 9 (20:00):
Yeah, I can probably he.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
Who you're talking to?

Speaker 2 (20:05):
You is Trump getting the hold of you? Or if
you're talking to the President. We'll stop the show because
Eric gets those calls every day.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
All right, Well, how do you request these services?

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Sbcity dot org, slash SB access online or get the
mobile app at the app store, Go SB city and
then you put information. They'll usually get there within a
few days, send you back information, let you know exactly
what happened.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
Put the GPS co ordance, and then there is all there.
You're good.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Put a little picture even if you want, or you
can give a call the old schoolway nine o nine
three eight four seven two seven two.

Speaker 6 (20:45):
And I'd say give them a call.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Team in front of your area isn't gonna get cleaned
up by itself. So either you do it or you
have somebody else do it. Well, if it's a piece
of property across the street from you, you can't do
it really right. You have to the owner do it
we'll give a call in how code enforcement come out
there and fix it. If we ain't fixing up our
own city, then who is going to right, It's not

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bad to call code enforcement. It's bad when you let
these eye sores rot because a lot of these people
aren't poor people that you're calling on.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
It's some rich property owner that's not taking care of
their property right. So that's what you got to realize
with us.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
And now though there's sometimes it's other things too, and
I'm sure you guys can call on that too, But
this running right here for graffiti potholes, you know you
got a pothole around I live in front of one
of the biggest potholes in the whole city, and I've
showed all the council members.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
But the street in front of there has never ever, ever,
ever been paved ever. It's cement. It's never been paved
because you have to have asphalt to pave it. It's cement.
So that's old school.

Speaker 7 (21:58):
So I don't know if you've been up and down
Mountain View between thirtieth and like thirty what is that
six thirty eight?

Speaker 6 (22:06):
I lost about forty park side walking that.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
Okay, the trees they put all kinds of new stop
signs up, but they only put them on one side
of the road, and the trees are completely blocking them
and you can't see it within two or three feet.
And I can't tell you how many people I've seen
run those stop signs because you don't see them until
it's too late.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
There's a new one on Valencia too that people keep
blowing through.

Speaker 7 (22:29):
It's brutal, and it's all up and down the street.
There's probably four or five new stop signs that people
are just blowing through because of it.

Speaker 6 (22:37):
So see, you guys, have you seen any new stop signs?
Have you been through any of them?

Speaker 9 (22:41):
They was on the Mountain View, but I didn't pay.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
Yeah, they got some new roads. They're actually paving a
few things too, like some side roads and stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
So, I mean, I know it's a little This is
more of the intricate part and on the interview part
of the show, but this is how we explain to
the people what's going on in the community and how
they can actually a difference, because it's not easy to
make a difference in our city. It's like not like
a lot of times you can get in trouble making
a difference. You try to go down to the park
and give away free food, how quick you're gonna get

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a code and fostment violation like that, and then they're
not gonna take.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
It away either. You're gonna have to pay that thing,
and then they're probably gonna charge you to have to
pick up all the trash that the homeless left behind
because we did it. That's how bad it is. So
we have to really be.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
On it and understand what we can do as a
community and what is allowed as a community. And that's
a lot of the time we were always asking for forgiveness,
you know, in a way sometimes you know, you gotta ask,
all right, So so today I like you both to
introduce yourselves and kind of what what your uh, what

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your position is, and where you're from.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
My name is.

Speaker 13 (23:52):
I'm a program assistant for micro Enterprise of Ailin Collaborative
of Villain Southern California. I did grow up in Summerdine,
born and raised. So I do feel that responsibility to
try and uplift the community, especially.

Speaker 14 (24:08):
The economic development between our local community in the small
business ecosystem.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
And and you're also a mother with kids in our school.

Speaker 14 (24:17):
System, I do I have four children here in Summerardino.

Speaker 13 (24:21):
My oldest son goes to Entrepreneur High School and there's
only two of those when I Fontan and one here
in Sammerardino.

Speaker 14 (24:28):
And yeah, so I have a big responsibility to try
and uplift this city.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
We have a definite mister King, I.

Speaker 9 (24:39):
Was going King of a stronger together now.

Speaker 15 (24:43):
I love calling mister Kyan all right, and yeah, we've
been in the city for now five years.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
Is just your third or second time I show?

Speaker 15 (24:51):
It's my second time, second time okay. Yeah, So we
were actually on his show when he was at the Old.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
Spot on Redlands where we were at the Old Spot just.

Speaker 15 (24:58):
After COVID or roughly maybe a year or so right
after COVID, and we're talking about just our new space
and also the things that we're trying to do in
San Bernardino. What's your school district? I'm the CEO and
co founder of Now she's a c FO okay.

Speaker 6 (25:17):
And you started this project together? Is there one more partner?

Speaker 7 (25:22):
No?

Speaker 9 (25:22):
Or she's a CEO?

Speaker 5 (25:26):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (25:26):
Sorry, but yeah, you've.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Guys been working together for a long time.

Speaker 15 (25:29):
Yeah, we've been working together for about five years and
now we've come back to the city because we were
originally in Redlands and we've transitioned into the school districts here,
so we're actually working at a number of different schools
in San Bernardino.

Speaker 6 (25:46):
And what have you been doing? Who are you?

Speaker 7 (25:48):
Who am I? I'm Tanya Road Tonsley and I do
several things.

Speaker 6 (25:54):
Were you born?

Speaker 7 (25:54):
I was born in Sarandino, raised here, you know. Right
now I'm work with Arrowhead United Way retired educator and
then whatever I can do in the community to make
it a yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Yeah, and Arlington he's a cool dude.

Speaker 7 (26:14):
Yeah, making things happen for our city. We have a
big Brave event coming up on June seventh, so I'll
make sure I let her know that I put that
out to the community. It's a veterans event. This will
be our second one, which is our first annual where
we're bringing out services to the veterans and making things
happen for them if they need help getting their paperwork, housing,

(26:38):
food we're doing. We're feeding anyone that's a veteran can
come out and get lunch, you know, breakfast, okay.

Speaker 6 (26:44):
And talk of the town. How do they get ahold
of that?

Speaker 7 (26:50):
Talk of the town is on Facebook and you can
look it up. It's a page, it's not a group,
so it's a little bit different. You can message me
there and I always respond. If you want me to
come cover an event, you want me to come see
what's going on, you want to be interviewed, make something happen.

(27:11):
I do all of those things for the community.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
How do we get a hold of your stuff on
social media?

Speaker 15 (27:16):
Yeah, we have a Facebook page at Stronger Together now
on Facebook, and we also have an Instagram page, so
Stronger if you.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
Guys want to go to these right now and check
them out right.

Speaker 13 (27:26):
Yes, that's about Instagram and Facebook. It would be under
Micro enter Price Collaborative.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
Glennar Advice Collaborative.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
So with the Micro Enterprise Collaborative, your goal is to
get businesses in contact with services that our local utilities provide,
right or more than that?

Speaker 13 (27:44):
Well, right now, we are in collaboration with Southern Edison
in the Chamber of Villains and Chino Valley to inform
and educate families in regards to the Power Savers Rewards program.
When families are signed up for this, they receive eve
an extra credit on their bill during flex alerts.

Speaker 14 (28:06):
A flex alert is basically.

Speaker 13 (28:07):
When it's really really hot and they send out a
flex alert to turn off your appliances from four to
nine pm, and.

Speaker 6 (28:14):
That will save you money.

Speaker 14 (28:15):
That will save you money, and it will save us
energy as a whole.

Speaker 13 (28:20):
Why because when time gets really hot, if we have
an outage, then the people who really need the energy,
like people with disabilities, right that they need the oxygen,
all that good stuff, they won't be able to get service.
So we are trying just to reserve energy as a
community and educate the families to get an extra credit

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on their bill.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
Why not, right?

Speaker 13 (28:44):
And what Micro Enterprise Collaborative does is we connect the
small businesses to resources at low cost to no costs.
Maybe they need a business planning, maybe they need to
become legal. They don't know how to become legal. We
can connect them with somebody. Maybe they need a tax preparation,
et cetera. Whatever they need, we can connect them to

(29:07):
the serve to the correct service provider that will assist
them at low cost to no costs. And this is
very important work because a lot of the times these
small businesses are not able to thrive because they don't
have the resources to be able to do so.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Right, and you serve business connect them too, that is right?
So us like, could you help non for profits too?

Speaker 13 (29:31):
So we don't have nonprofits on our web page right now?
What we have nonprofits that help the small businesses. So
for example, we have a seven hundred network based like Associations, Accessity,
am Pack, SBDC, Women's Business Center. So all these nonprofit

(29:55):
organizations that kind of do the same work that we do,
we gathered together to uplift the small business community.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
So yeah, that is that sounds so I'm kind of
I'm not someome in a synopsis. If you want to
get this extra credit on your bill, you can help
set that up, but they can do it on their
own right now.

Speaker 13 (30:19):
Yeah, so a lot of the families are already signed
up automatically, but if not, you can go online and
you can easily sign up, or you can give them
a call ass one.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
And that's your job too, is to inform people.

Speaker 14 (30:32):
Yes that is available, Yes, yes, awesome, awesome.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
And your your director's name?

Speaker 13 (30:37):
My director, Miss Pamela Dean's she's an she's been executive
director for over four years with Mike Anderprise Collaborative and
we have a board of directors. I believe about fifteen directors,
including in that mister Josiah BRUNTI the he was working
on the.

Speaker 14 (30:59):
Yes and many many other awesome individuals on our board.

Speaker 13 (31:03):
So we are just trying to uplift the ecosystem and
work together to uplift the small communities.

Speaker 14 (31:11):
And you nervous, I am, it's my first time.

Speaker 6 (31:15):
You did great, you did a great interview. Now we'll
putting you on the spot now, cove, all right, all.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Right, now, so basically tell us from the beginning, how
did this why did you even start stronger together?

Speaker 9 (31:25):
Now? Sure, so.

Speaker 15 (31:28):
It was obviously during the time of like Black Lives
Matter and a lot of the issues that were just
going on around in the community.

Speaker 9 (31:35):
And I played basketball.

Speaker 15 (31:38):
I still kind of played basketball, but initially I was
an overseas basketball player. So once COVID hit and a
lot of the things shut down in what country? The
last country that.

Speaker 9 (31:47):
I was in was Mexico.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
It wasn't Russia.

Speaker 9 (31:50):
No, I've been in the airport in Russia.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
So well, yeah, we know how play that was a
crazy situation, right.

Speaker 15 (31:57):
Right, So I was over there and you know, back
and a lot of the things were closed. I couldn't
go to other countries. I couldn't just get back into
the trade that I was in. So me and Janelle
we would go to protests, you know, we would go
to things in the community and just really try to
figure out, you know, ways that we could really help out,
ways that we could support and we actually figured out that,

(32:20):
you know, these protests are dangerous. These protests aren't always
the best place that you want to be to kind
of convey a message, and so I actually looked at
it as like, you know what, we probably should still
try to convey that message, but try.

Speaker 9 (32:34):
To do it safer.

Speaker 15 (32:35):
So she was like, you know what, well, why don't
we make a nonprofit? So I was like, okay, well
that sounds like a good idea. I didn't really know
the ins and outs of the nonprofit space, but it
just seemed more sensible, you know, to try to do
that type of work and not really in danger, you know,
people that you're with. I've seen people get shot at protests.
I've seen people get arrested at protests and things of
that nature. So yeah, from there, we would just do

(32:59):
simple events in the unity.

Speaker 9 (33:00):
We did cookouts, we did giveaway Now I do watch.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
Them, I know, I am a slacker. I cannot go
to every event. I I I just can't. But I
just and appreciate all their work. I mean, you guys kicked.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
But and now that you're in Sammary, you know, and
I'm not saying it was the only reason was because
it was in Revants.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
But now that you are in Salmon, you will agreed.

Speaker 9 (33:26):
You can agree that's cool.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
It's in Sara, do you know, Like definitely, my mama
can come and I'll come busy to mer event.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
So it'll be a lot easier for me now.

Speaker 15 (33:34):
And full disclosure, you know, it wasn't that we had
a particular place from where we were going to go initially.
But at that time Redlands was open more. There are
more things that you could do.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
You needs to realize that, right, And it's not just
with that, it's with business.

Speaker 9 (33:51):
It's with a lot of things, right. So we were
actually able to do events at their parks.

Speaker 15 (33:56):
They would actually have events to where they would give us,
you know, discounts or they would give us like support
in that type of space. They would actually give us
a discount in the park where say, if we wanted
to use ed Hill's Park, they would actually give us
a thing called an in condonation where they would give
us any service that we were using a park for free.
So say if you wanted to use that park and

(34:18):
you wanted to use it and rent it, you would
have to pay for the water, you would have to
pay for the electricity, you'd have to pay for the trash.
So when we were doing exactly so, when we were
doing things it's our nonprofit, they would give us fourteen
thousand dollars free in terms of services through that in condonation.
So us as a nonprofit, you know, a budget, a

(34:38):
smaller entity, we couldn't afford that.

Speaker 9 (34:41):
So that was what, you know, was really beneficial for us.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
So you're saying that there needs to be something, and
you know that Siam Renadino does wave the permit.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
Fees for some short depending.

Speaker 15 (34:54):
Yeah, it just depends, and I mean that, you know,
that's that's what I've seen, But it should be for.

Speaker 6 (34:58):
The colonels that are just starting to you know, sprout
and grow.

Speaker 15 (35:03):
Right for sure, like I've seen, at least in our
brief time here, that there are pushback, that there is pushback,
excuse me, and that things aren't as seamless. And I
understand that San Bernardino is a way bigger city. Redlands
is a smaller city, so it is a little more
difficult to get these things going. But as you said,

(35:24):
if you can have those collaborative efforts, then things can
kind of work in tandem. But yeah, it was easy.
We would go to a city council. There's ten people
at the city council meeting, you know, and Redlands excuse me,
versus sem Bernardino. You might have one hundred people, two
hundred people, and they might were mad exactly.

Speaker 6 (35:45):
By the time they're mad.

Speaker 7 (35:48):
I have a question. Do you think that a lot
of that has to do just with the inequality and
finances and Redlands and taxes and the base for their
whole tax space versus.

Speaker 6 (36:05):
Semen because they have a bigger budget.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Oh yeah, their budget is they might be able to
fight more free bees.

Speaker 9 (36:12):
I mean, it's probably multifaceted and multi layer.

Speaker 7 (36:16):
You know.

Speaker 9 (36:16):
I'm certainly not going to say that I'm on that
end of.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
That, But because you want to be able to go
back there and get some more, yeah, because that's awesome,
you know.

Speaker 15 (36:25):
And that should be copied by well, not necessarily, And
I mean your initial point was I'm from Rialto. I
didn't grow I wasn't born in Rialto, but I grew
up in Rialito on San Bernardino's right next door. You're
in county, right next door. So I never had a
problem with San Bernardino. But to your point, the things

(36:45):
that we were doing in Redlands didn't really speak to
that community.

Speaker 9 (36:49):
They weren't things that they really needed. So coming to San.

Speaker 15 (36:52):
Bernardino, working in the school is doing the things that
we're doing in our new space. Those are things that
are needed here. And I think that people just have
to standards that the area is huge, but you have
to go to where you think that the services are
best utilized and most needed. If you live in Redlands
but want to work in San Bernardino, that's totally fine,
that's not an issue. But I think people just have

(37:13):
a kind of like a closed minded mentality of I
live in Redlands and I only want to do things
in Redlands, or I live in Rialto, I only only
want to do things in Rialito, so on and so forth.
My focus is I'm going to try to help any
area in the Inland Empire that I can, but certainly
if we can help San Bernardino, it's going to reverberate

(37:33):
and go to the other areas because that's the hub.

Speaker 7 (37:36):
You know.

Speaker 15 (37:36):
San Bernardino is the middle, and that's why we call
it the area of the Pulse. You know, it's the
pulse of the area. If we can get the pose
or get the heartbeat of the Inland Empire correct, then
it's going to go to all the other extremities of
the area.

Speaker 6 (37:51):
What is your first major mission?

Speaker 9 (37:53):
My first major mission, I think we've already I think
we've already hit it. You know, we did the soft opening.

Speaker 15 (38:00):
But my first focus was really, like I said, getting
into the schools, you know, getting into the schools and
working with these young people on a day to day basis,
because I don't think that people really understand the struggles
that these young people go through from you know, trying
to get the proper education to get to school. You know,
we have a program that's called canvassing, and what canvassing

(38:22):
is is we actually work with the two continuation schools
so through that we actually go to their homes and
check on the kids. Because if you're a continuation school, especially,
you know, they receive money from kids coming to school,
Like we're not gonna We're not going to mint it
and make it something that is not Kids need to
go to schools for schools get paid. So we actually

(38:44):
go to this to the homes of the kids that
miss We've had kids where they'll miss one hundred days
of school because it's a continuation school. So when you're like, well,
how come these kids aren't getting the education that they need.
How come they're not getting the support that they need,
they're not going to school.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
The business you're what you're telling me is exactly what
doctor Hill used to have to do. She told me
that exact same story. She would have to go on
her own to the to the kids, be like, hey,
you should come back to school, and eventually they would
come back to school.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
That's what you.

Speaker 7 (39:16):
Need to do. One of the things that I did
when I was in schools and I started at deval
A Hoe and then I, yeah, we worked. I wrote
it for San Andreas, I wrote it for several other schools,
arrow View. We would do positive My husband used to
be a principal at Andreas Co and we started that
whole growing Hope program And so I wrote grants through

(39:42):
the state that were positive home visits and we would
go out into the neighborhoods and meet with families, meet
with with parents, and and I would tell them pick
any kid you want, right. It could be your worst,
your best, I don't care. And that's how we start.
And then we would invite them back to the school

(40:03):
to sit down and have a meal with the staff
and the people in the home, and we started breaking
down the barriers to build those relationships to get kids
in school. And then when my husband was principal at
San Andreas and we were able to work with ESRI,

(40:23):
right within a year, those kids were presenting in front
of twenty six thousand people and sixteen countries the program
that was developed and how well they were doing as
a continuation high school. They were chosen. And then we
came back and did growing hope, phenomenal program right to

(40:46):
get kids into something to bring them through the doors
all levels of education from severely handicapped through regular education,
but to tie them in and get them coming every day.
And that was it was starting to become a school
of choice and so looking at and now they just

(41:08):
got another award model it's just continuation high school.

Speaker 9 (41:13):
It has a school excellent.

Speaker 15 (41:17):
We were at San Andreas and Sierra and it's funny,
she said deb Lejo. And yeah, you go to the
you know, you go to these home visits and it's
essentially just a wellness check. You know, if the parents
are there, great, if the kids are there great, and
it's just letting them know that we care about them.

Speaker 6 (41:34):
Somebody actually cares.

Speaker 7 (41:35):
Right, and it's that connection. It's huge, you know, knocking
on the doors. I could tell you stories about knocking
on doors and doing home visits, you know, in in
uh when kids would come back to school. You were
at my house yesterday, absolutely right, and walking up, are
you the popo? No? Do I look like the popo?

(41:58):
You know? And but that just that concept of once
you walk in their door or you're knocking on their door,
it's a whole different attitude because now they know you're
going to hold them accountable.

Speaker 9 (42:11):
No, you're holding them accountable.

Speaker 15 (42:14):
Obviously with this administration, a lot of the young people
and we've had questions to where people will ask like,
you know, are you guys Ice, are you guys CPS
or you guys affiliated with you know La Migra if
you will, and it's like, no, you know, we're here
to support you guys. You know, if a young person
broke their leg or something like that, Okay, we can

(42:35):
relay that information to the staff, to that to the
to the principles and things of that nature.

Speaker 9 (42:41):
If the young.

Speaker 15 (42:41):
Person is you know, going to have a baby and
maybe they don't want to go to school, that's fine.
If we can get those resources to get them home
schooling or just you know, try to figure out some
way that we can kind of make that connection between
school and student and families. It's a big difference because
they're overly concerned that you know, the school is going

(43:01):
to dime them out, that the system is going to
dim them out, and they're going to get in trouble.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
What's the most difficult part about getting a contract with
the Sarren, you know, unified school district.

Speaker 15 (43:12):
I would probably say just what types of services you offer.
I don't think that it's necessarily difficult. I think it's more,
like she said, the grant writing or the proposal portion
of it, and really getting it under a.

Speaker 9 (43:27):
Amount that they can service.

Speaker 15 (43:29):
You know what I mean, Because let's say that you
start at five million, and then you have someone that
might do it at a one hundred thousand that doesn't
mean that the services are that much different.

Speaker 9 (43:41):
It just means that that the school might budget that more,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 15 (43:45):
So what we're having, like I said, with the administration,
is a lot of these services that vendors provide are
being cut because the schools are saying, well, look, you
know we have to finance sports. You know, we have
to finance certain things that we can't lose them regardless.
So okay, if you're a vendor and you know you're
come and get at a price that we can afford,

(44:06):
we'll take that vendor versus you know, someone that might
be offering more, but it doesn't necessarily fit their budget.
So that's what's difficult. I would say more or less
in San Bernardino versus Redlands is the budget. Redlands has
way more money, you know, so they can stockpile those
services into a school. So when you're asking it's what

(44:29):
maybe ten to fifteen mile difference, maybe less. When you're
asking what's the difference with a Redland student versus a
San Bernardino student, it's really the money that's in the city.
Because as a Redland student, you're gonna get a wellness check,
you're gonna get you know, nutrition, you're gonna get information
and resources around the clock. Certain schools in San Bernardino,

(44:51):
like a Quantis will probably get that regularly. Yeah, you're
not gonna get that at San Bernardino Pacific that a
royal valley just because not that they don't try, No,
they try, they try, but it's it's a budget.

Speaker 9 (45:03):
It's literally, it's literally a budget thing.

Speaker 15 (45:06):
So when you know, when we're going to the school
board meetings or when we're talking to potential schools on
like you know, we have the wellness check, we have
the mentoring piece that we offer, we.

Speaker 9 (45:15):
Have all of these services. How much does it cost?
It's really what they want to hear.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
Have you have you been over have you did any
work with charter schools yet?

Speaker 9 (45:25):
We haven't gone that route just yet.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
So I go over to like I'll give you a
contact to pale over there.

Speaker 9 (45:32):
And do that.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Yeah, and talk to mister Radden. He's a really nice
guy and he might have a way for you guys
to fit on because like I'm all about this collaboration.
That's why we have the show to people together, right
and like I could I could see like because they're
already working with the Cremery Unified School. Yes, really right,
I mean, so it's just if you're if you're certified
for one, you.

Speaker 15 (45:53):
Know you're going to be you know, no, we have
absolutely we have a contract for five years, so we
can offer those services four or five years. It's just
like you said, it's a matter of the connection. It's
a matter of talking to those people and if you
will giving a pitch.

Speaker 6 (46:07):
You know, he's good dad, you know, but he's a
Dane cardinal.

Speaker 7 (46:15):
Well, you know, it's it's interesting that you say that.

Speaker 5 (46:18):
Right.

Speaker 7 (46:18):
I'm going to tell you the bottom line. When I
used to be in charge of after school programs, attendance
was everything, and I would do how many students we had,
how many students I scheduled into a class, how many
students showed up on a regular basis, And by the
end of the year we were making one hundred thousand
dollars in our program to go back into what the

(46:40):
school needed. That was at double a hope.

Speaker 9 (46:42):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (46:43):
And and so when you start looking at it, and
my after school program was intensive reading and intensive math,
so you know, kids are beating their head against the
wall for how many hours a day and then turning
around and coming to beat their head for three more
hours at the end of the day. The difference was,
and this is where I go back to what we

(47:05):
did with growing Hope in San Andreas. The difference was
we made it fun, tied it into pe and you know,
building your physical stamina and your endurance and what that
does for you and learning and mentally. And this is
back in just so you know, like early two thousand

(47:27):
to two thousand and ten ish, and I say that
because we're not where we are. We weren't then where
we are now with mental health. May's Mental health month.
By the way, with mental health, you know, the importance
of our physical health was being looked at but not
understood in the same way. So I say that because

(47:51):
any way that you can figure out how to make
it fun for those kids, oh yeah, and then bring
them back into it, it's gonna just support for what
you deal.

Speaker 15 (48:01):
No, I think it's such an excellent point. I think
it's important working in tandem with with the students, with
the staff, the principles and just understanding your students, you know,
understanding the student population. And so sometimes when we're going
out and we're talking to students or we're talking to
staff principles and things of that nature. They know they're students,

(48:22):
so they'll tell us, hey, you know, this lunch program
is gonna work good, you know, or this isn't gonna.

Speaker 9 (48:28):
Work this way, or that's gonna work that way.

Speaker 15 (48:30):
And so, like I said, full disclosure, Like, we've had
principles that saw what we had and didn't really like
it and they suggested another thing. You have to be flexible,
like I think, like I said, people think that what
they're doing is so cutting edge, and they think that
it's so you know, advanced. No, Like one of the

(48:50):
ladies was like, look, if you do a lunch program,
we'll take it. And so we made a lunch program
and so it took off because you know, kudos to
the principle at Devil lahel Miss Maynerd.

Speaker 9 (49:01):
She was like, this is going to work for our kids.
I know my kids.

Speaker 15 (49:04):
I know what's going to be best for them and
be beneficial. And when you have people that are leading,
you know, and kind of driving the ship, that can
be instruments.

Speaker 9 (49:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (49:14):
Well, and I love that you say that because I
know Miss Maynor well. I worked with her for years
and years and years and She does an excellent job
of knowing the kids, knowing what drives them, understanding them,
understanding that community, because of course it's not just the kids,
and so it's so important, you know, for those things

(49:36):
and just looking at how to make those things happen
for those kids so that they benefit.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
What are your favorite things that you hear from your
kids when they go to school? Like, what do you
like to hear them talk about?

Speaker 14 (49:49):
They like games, you.

Speaker 7 (49:51):
Know, they love games?

Speaker 13 (49:52):
Yea, they like the free bees, the little resource fairs
they have.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
Just so sometimes they come home and like the shoes
that get in the car they talk about that.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Yes, what's another thing that when they get in the car.
What do they else did they talk about?

Speaker 14 (50:07):
Um, let's see, they talk about too many things.

Speaker 6 (50:12):
Like what usually excites sports? Yes, it's like look at
these arms too.

Speaker 15 (50:25):
But I mean they like field trips. You know, field
trips is huge. Oh yes, field trips is like one
of the bigger things.

Speaker 6 (50:32):
And that's so field trips that is why I created
daily days and.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Going to the schools because it couldn't afford the Dane transportation.

Speaker 16 (50:42):
What I'm saying the funding funding, like funding for field
trips is cut it's not it's not focused on as much,
so they're not going to museums and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
How we did it is, uh, they found businesses that
would support us with walking distance of the school. One
of them happened to be the seven Up Company down
from Riley. Oh yeah, we would go to the seven
L Company, get a tour of the thing, and they
give us a free seven up in their you know,
you know, but I you know, I remember that to

(51:15):
this day. And it was all based off of good attendance.
Attendance for the month. So if you did one hundred
pertences for the month and it went for six months,
you got to go on the field trip and walk
with all the kids.

Speaker 7 (51:31):
The seven Up Company, they're trying to tie a lot
more back into attendance, like, you know, doing incentives, giving
them whatever they're called Jaguar Pause or dragon scales, like
where they get the pbis money for doing good grades,
behaving well, any of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
So maybe even a field trip, like where would you
take them, Like what would be a good field trip?

Speaker 6 (51:58):
Present kind of like not present, but you earned it right.

Speaker 7 (52:01):
Well, And you'd be surprised because our kids have so
many food insecurities, like with Arrowhead United Way.

Speaker 15 (52:08):
A lot of.

Speaker 7 (52:09):
Times I've had schools call me up and say, hey,
we need some incentive. So if we have candy or
you know, food that has like jerky sticks things like that,
I'll take them over there. And the kids love that stuff.
So if you're looking at like, you know, we don't

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have what we used to have Robert for field trips
and that I remember going.

Speaker 6 (52:35):
To the Natural History Museum in La A Spirit see
all these things. It's really taken away.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
That's why I mentioned about the in home, Like that's
how I try to portray my program, was like, this
is an in school field trip, right, So I would
bring all these huge tubs and film up with sand
and all kinds of fossils.

Speaker 6 (52:55):
The kids would dig them and.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
They would go through the whole experience and have different
rooms so they weren't in the same room the whole day.
They got a trade every hour in the room and
different things to do.

Speaker 6 (53:05):
And you know what, I was a hit and they stolen.

Speaker 15 (53:13):
And it's interesting maybe she can tie into it, but
it's huge to like have those corporations, you know what
I mean when you're asking, because the kids they go
to Golden Pizza all the time. It's right right around
the corner from Sierra. But we need these bigger companies
to come in and say, you know what, Amazon, so
cow Edison, Amazon, State or Brothers. You know, if you

(53:33):
like them or not, if they're DEI or not, you know,
that's another story. But they need to do their part.
You know, you're you're you're putting all these warehouses in
the community. You're putting all these things near our schools.
You're putting all these things near where we live. You know,
it's messing up the air.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Yeah, Amazon should be am state sale I mean about
sales tax, but they pay state.

Speaker 15 (53:55):
Our carbon print is horrible in terms of like you know,
the inland we have the worst air quality in the area.
Is that something that you know those businesses are interested
in or that they can get interesting because we need that.

Speaker 13 (54:08):
There is a whole industry of like energy conservation green.
It's called green business, so just going green, you know,
with a lot of different stuff solar.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
So if they offered a program that was based off
going green, it might be a way into some of
those businesses.

Speaker 7 (54:34):
See, that would be amazing for whommeever develops downtown one
to do lead development right, that the green development, and
I've had that conversation many many times, but also looking
at how do we do those things within our community right,
how do we bring that programming here so that our

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kids can start to understand. I know this week I
helped cahone set up a trade stay so instead of
bringing in colleges, right, and they did that at the
beginning of the year. They're bringing in different trade programs
and workforce development and different programs to be there and
look at things like kids that want to go work

(55:18):
for Layuna, or want to go work for iron workers,
or want a summer job through workforce development. You know,
it's amazing stuff.

Speaker 13 (55:29):
It's just like going back to what Roberts said. You know,
regular college might not be a good fit for all
these kids growing up. They might want to go into
a trade, maybe at a motive, welding, electrical, be a
Michanic make it right man. So I did see that
at the last resource I took my daughter and my

(55:49):
little son. There was a lot of different opportunities options.

Speaker 7 (55:54):
For the children.

Speaker 13 (55:55):
So and also me being a mother to a young
son wants to be an entrepreneur and a business owner
in HVAC, heating, in air conditioning, you know, so just
trying to introduce him to many skills as possible.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
And yeah, that's awesome. So if we want so, you're
you have another grand opening the We've got the big.

Speaker 15 (56:20):
You know, the coupde graph you will, it's going to
be Sunday at the Post. And we didn't get to
talk about the Post, but i'll briefly talk about the Post.
The Post is our new space. It's twenty four hundred
square feet. It's right off of Fourth Street, and I
want to say, e maybe it's right across the street
from the movie theater. Okay, so it's right there, and

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it's just an opening to let the community know that
we're there. It's a collaborative space. So if you know,
you ever needed a room to use, you needed a
open space to use. If you want to do events,
if you want to do some posiums, anything to where
most of the time lots of people can't find a space,
you know, they can't find a space that's affordable, they

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can't find a space that speaks to them.

Speaker 9 (57:06):
So that's what we're trying to do.

Speaker 15 (57:07):
We're gonna do similar events like we did in Redlands,
but bringing it to San Bernardino, but more under the
guise of like resources, you know, getting people haircuts, getting
people things for job fairs, getting people opportunities to be
in mobile showers or stuff like that. Bringing what San
Bernardino needs what Redlands need. It isn't necessarily the same.
So it's again understanding your area and understanding the people

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in the space.

Speaker 6 (57:31):
Our kids need shoes. Talk to sheiks.

Speaker 9 (57:35):
We'll talk to sheiks. Maybe sheks can get some shoes.
Maybe they can get some shoes or something like that.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
Put shoes on all the kids in Sierardino.

Speaker 9 (57:44):
One hundred percent.

Speaker 15 (57:45):
But like I said, it starts with us, you know,
it starts with us in these rooms and us having
those conversations saying I want to.

Speaker 6 (57:52):
Say thank you.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
I've watched you guys progress you with from nothing all
the way to a spot in a space in San Bernardino.

Speaker 6 (57:59):
I appreciate that, and good job you and Janelle.

Speaker 7 (58:02):
Thank you, amazing, amazing blue Bit.

Speaker 6 (58:05):
It sounds like a very interesting program, and keep it up.

Speaker 13 (58:10):
I check us out, check out our website, Mike Grinder
Price Collaborative.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Yeah, and we'll post that information up on is love Sam,
you know, send me a copy of that and we'll
post it up there.

Speaker 6 (58:20):
And your stuff too, we'll put it out as well.
An Tanya, we'll talk of the town. Thank you for
all you do.

Speaker 7 (58:25):
Appreciate thank you.

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