September 2, 2025 • 53 mins
Dr. Barb Brady with the "We Thrive" drug prevention and family engagement event at Mountwest Community and Technology Center, Republican candidate for State Senate Travis Willard, Goodwin Chief of Staff Matt Sutton in for Mayor Goodwin.
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or otherwise going on in the city at Charleston. Coming
up a little bit later on, also going to introduce
you to a gentleman who has already announced that he's
running for State Senate out of a District four next
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year as a Republican. Is name is Travis Willard, and
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zero eight. I do want to tell you about an
event that's going to be happening later in the month.
It's Thursday, September the eighteenth at Mount West Community and
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Technical College, which is located in Huntington. It's called Together
We Thrive Drug Prevention and Family engagement being hosted by
the Inspiring Dreams network here to talk about it is
doctor Barbara Brady. Good morning, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Did I get everything right? All the all the particulars
right there?
Speaker 8 (03:02):
You did?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
All right?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
All right?
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Well I can go home then, right because everything's done absolutely,
because everybody thinks it's you know, I said, I mean,
is it gonna have?
Speaker 9 (03:11):
At what point today are we going.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
To stop saying it's Monday? You know, two three o'clock
in the afternoon. Time to go home.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Probably it's a good thing. I remember, today's too.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Better you than me. First of all, I want to
talk about the Inspiring Dreams Network. What kind of work
do you do? What's a mission statement behind? Just talk
about the Inspiring Dreams Network.
Speaker 10 (03:30):
Well, Inspiring Dreams Network trains and supports adults who work
with youth across the state. Our mission is to foster,
equip and empower stronger resilient community network that inspire, prepare,
and support youth to thrive. And our vision is we
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envision a future where every community is equipped and empowered
to nurture the dreams, resilience and successive youth. So basically,
we support adults across the state. We're really trying to
build strong community networks of adults who are prepared to
support at risk youth. As you probably know, West Virginia
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has the highest opioid death rate in the nation, almost
a third higher than the next highest state, which is Conduck, Kentucky.
And our opiloid death rate is twice about twice what
the national average is, which means we have a lot
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of kids who are struggling in homes with parents who
are dying of drug overdoses, being arrested. You know, a
lot of neglect, family dysfunction that impact kids. And so
we're working to empower adults to support them so they
can overcome and thrive.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
It's it's it's a great project and great work that
you're doing. And you know, we've heard this doctor h
for a couple of decades now that West Virginia leads
the nation in opioid debts and and all of these
all all these bad things. Why do you think that is?
That's a million dollar question. But why why does West
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Virginia struggle with this more than say Arkansas or Vermont
or whatever, what what what other state?
Speaker 7 (05:28):
That's a good question.
Speaker 10 (05:29):
I think part of it is that we don't focus
enough on prevention.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
You know a lot of poverty, you know a lot of.
Speaker 10 (05:41):
Just negative national statistics, a lot of adverse childhood experiences,
which is neglect, family dysfunction, and abuse.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
So a lot of adults in West Virginia are.
Speaker 10 (06:03):
Don't really like to use the word victims, but I'll
say victims of adverse childhood experiences.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
And so.
Speaker 10 (06:11):
Any individual who is impacted by adverse childhood experiences is
more likely to self medicate, if you will use drugs
to kill the pain. And so it's just this vicious cycle.
It's a multi generational cycle of abuse, neglect, family dysfunction.
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Another interesting piece of data about West Virginia is what
we know is adverse childhood experiences impacts not only mental health,
and impacts physical health and impacts You're more likely to
have cancer, diabetes, overweight, and if not treated, if there's
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not some mitigation, it leads to early death. And West
Virginia has the lowest life expectancy in the nation. So
it's just a multi generational issue that Inspiring Dreams Network
is working to be part of the solution. Teaching coping,
helping adults teach themselves and kids coping skills, positive youth development,
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and those kinds of things. So this event that's coming
up in Huntington is, you know, part of our solution.
We have a small grant from the West Virginia Youth
Alliance Promise that we're putting on this event. It's called
Together We Thrive Drug Prevention and Family Engagement. It's Thursday,
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September eighteenth, from five to eight pm. We're going to
provide free food so parents, really encourage parents, families, community
folks to come in. We're going to provide free food
so you can come straight from work, have dinner, and
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then we're going to have several different activities.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
You know, I'm going to go back to the work
that you're doing and then we'll focus on the event.
I'm a kid of the nineteen eighties, you know, and
we were to just say no generation. And I say
this to talk about prevention a little bit. We were
the just say no Nancy Reagan on the on TV,
you know, just just say here's your brain on drugs,
you know, all the public service hencements, and for one
reason or another that that didn't stick. Thankfully it did
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with me, but it didn't stick with a lot of
other people. Okay, it probably stuck with me because I
had parents who would have who were part of my
even though they were here's were divorced, they were still
part of my life. So that's probably had a big
part to do with it. But then we tried different
things over the years in the nineties there, it was
a different way in the two thousands. And what's the
I mean when it comes to prevention, I mean, have
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we learned anything from the past in your opinion, doctor
that a lot of these things that we tried in
the past just didn't work. I mean, you know, science
is always about evolving and trying different things. What have
we learned from maybe some of the mistakes or some
of the missteps out of the past.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
Well, the reason just say no doesn't work. You're not
building skills for individuals to cope with the pain that's
caused by adverse childhood experiences. And so there are research
based strategies that we know works. So helping kids build resilience,
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for instance, So we teach organizations how to specific strategies
to help kids build resilience and overcome, helping them develop
coping skills, calm down strategies, emotional regulation strategies. You don't
know what you don't know, and you know, deal with
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a child who lacks emotional regulation can be very frustrating.
You can become frustrated yourself. So we're not only teaching
them how to help kids calm down, we're helping them
be able to take a step back and not compound
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the problem or not re traumatize a child.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
So when we know that certain things can a lot
of people don't like the word trigger, but trigger a child.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
It could be a sound, a smell, a phrase that
someone says that makes them want to stay safe, makes
them scared, makes them feel like, you know, those emotions
of feeling threatened. And so that's where we have to
start addressing the child, helping them recognize their emotions, finding
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out what's triggering them, teaching them emotional regulation skills. And
so if we don't build the child, they're going to
grow up to be emotionally unregulated adults.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
And again the cycle is going to the.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Cycle continues there. We're getting talking to get to a doctor.
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Speaker 9 (11:29):
Let's go back to this event again.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
It's September the eighteenth at Mount West Community and Technical College,
and I was reading over your flyer, doctor. A lot
of folks come together, you know, to make this happen.
Some of your partners. If I leave one off, you
could tell me the West Virginia Promise Youth Alliance, Marshall University,
School of Health, Technical Assistance Centers, and others. Just at
a lot of folks working on this project to make
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it happen.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
Right, and Mount West is also donating their facility.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Right.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
It's a beautiful facility, by the way, if you've never
I've been there. Very nice facility it is.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
And so we really want this to be a family event.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
Lots of times parents won't go to things because they
lack childcare in the evening.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
So we're going to have children's activities. In fact, we're
going to be.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Help letting them practice some calm down strategies, some coping strategies,
some stay safe get strategies, and having fun.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
We're not going to be lecturing them or anything like that.
Speaker 10 (12:29):
We're going to play games and have fun, and so
we're really excited that we're not only engaging the parents
and community members but also having some fun activities for kids.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
And where can people learn more about your work about
this event and did they need to register ahead of time?
Give us all the details.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
There is a registration link.
Speaker 10 (12:52):
We would like for you to register ahead of time,
so we'll kind of have an idea of how many
people will attend.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
But you can also just show up.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
But if you go to the Inspiring Dreams Network website,
which is just Inspiring Dreams Network dot org, it's the
first thing you'll see on our page, and there's a
registration link.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
There's a schedule.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
Some of the things that will be going on are
We will have a presenter from the Community Prevention Liaison,
Josh Murphy, who will be talking about hidden in Plain Sight.
We know that the earlier an individual gets addicted, the
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more difficult it is to come out of the addiction,
and so we're not doing this to punish kids, but
there's a lot of temptation, lots of things and lots
of ways, lots of things that you wouldn't even think
is a drug, and so I'm excited about that. He's
going to talk about hidden in plain sight maybe how
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to catch it early before kids really get addicted. We're
also going to have a Narcan training demonstration and people
will receive free Narcan and talk to parents and family
members and community members about an evidence based program from SAMSA.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
It's called Talk.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
They hear you and really communicating with your children in
a positive way is one of the best ways to
have a healthy relationship.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
So it sounds like you got a whole lot going
on there. And again, give us that website again.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
It is www.
Speaker 10 (14:39):
Inspiring Dreams Network dot org.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
So just like it's spelled okay arian.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
That's another I think I think we got to we
wish you the best of luck with your events. Is
like you're doing a lot of great work and it's
going to be September the eighteenth a Mountain West Community
of Technical College, which is located in Huntington. Doctor, I
appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Thanks thank you, Dave, thank you for having all right.
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It may be an off year for elections in West Virginia,
but some people, many in fact, are looking ahead to
next year's election. One of those people's Travis Willard, a
Republican who wants to be State Senator from District Force
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he currently held by Senator Eric Tarr. Travis joins us
this morning at the Jeric Construction Studios. Good morning, sir,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Good morning Dave, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Thank you for being the first of all give us
a bio. Travis wild Who is Travis Wilder.
Speaker 15 (18:05):
So, I'm a West Virginia boy, born and raised. I've
spent my entire life between Mason and Putnam Counties. When
I was born. My parents lived in Buffalo and then
they moved to Point Pleasant, So I grew up there,
went through all my school there. My son of Marshall
son of University of Charleston as well, So spent my
entire life here.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
So this is your first foray into politics?
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Is that right?
Speaker 10 (18:28):
It is? It is so?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
So what made you decide to want to run?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
You know, Dave?
Speaker 15 (18:36):
I spent twenty four years in the army, and thank
you for your service by day. You know, it really
was an honor and a privilege. I joined on a
whim when I was seventeen and then honestly fell in
love with it. Nine to eleven happened, and it really
inspired that sense of service. And throughout my tenure in
the military, I had some great leaders, some great mentors,
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and they really inspired me that sense of selfless service.
So for me, this foray into politics is a continuation
of that selfless service. I really believe that's what leadership
should be about. It shouldn't be about egos or titles.
It should be about standing up for those who can't
stand up for themselves and ultimately given the citizens of
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West Virginia the opportunities they need.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
To succeed in a safe and healthy environment.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
What do you see Travis as the biggest needs of
your district?
Speaker 15 (19:29):
You know, that is a really big question. We have
a lot of opportunity coming to district for for the
first time in a long time. We've got the new
core plant opening up. There's some other facilities in the
northern end of Mason County are that are scheduled to progress,
and we hope that they do. With that being said,
we have major, major infrastructure issues. Our roads are in
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a lot of areas falling apart. We still have folks
in Mason and Putnam County that still don't have running
water and it's twenty twenty five. That's a problem. On
top of that, we have, you know, our I don't
feel like our school systems are ready. I don't think
they're ready to support the influx of people moving in
the area. I mean, we're talking thousands and thousands of jobs.
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And my fear is that those folks are gonna, you know,
they're gonna move right across the border in Ohio, you know,
and just commute to work. So we're gonna we're gonna
lose those those citizens.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
This district is interesting and again we're talking with Travis Willard,
a Republican candidate for state Senate. This district. Travis is
interesting because there's not a whole lot of areas in
the state, maybe eastern Panhandle, maybe the Morgantown area that
can say we're preparing for an influx of people, because
usually it's the exact opposite.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
And let's face it, you know, ten years.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Ago we were facing that in this district. But it's different,
and the challenges I think can be different. I mean,
you know, we're not we're not bleeding population in this
district that you want to represent like we are in say,
areas of so other in West Virginia or whatever. But
there are still challenges that come with that.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
There are.
Speaker 15 (21:05):
It is absolutely a great problem to have, and the
biggest challenge in my mind is, you know, how do
we how do we capitalize on this growth because ultimately
we want our kids to be able to stay here,
you know, be able to have jobs that they can
raise a family on. But how do we capitalize on
that growth and not lose the values that make West
Virginia what it is. I firmly believe that the people
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are our greatest natural resource. That's why I've continued to
stay here. Right Like a lot of my generation they
left the state, I chose to stay because I believe
I believe in those values and I believe that's what
makes West Virginia great is the people. So it is
a great problem to have, but we've got a lot
of work to do. We need some vision, we need
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some folks that are able to look ten, fifteen, twenty
years down the road prepare for that growth. And again,
I'm very thankful we've got the growth come, but I
feel like that we are at a point where it
could either be a great thing or or we're going
to get left further behind.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Explain the district to us. District for so, it is kind.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Of an interesting district.
Speaker 15 (22:12):
So in Putnam County, it's basically everything south of the
River in Putnam County, so Tay's Valley, Hurricane, the whole
southern end of the county. It bleeds over into Cable
County a little bit and encompasses Milton and Keloding, It's
all of Mason County, and then it is essentially the
western part of Jackson County. So Ripley, Ravenswood evans that
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area as well.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
It is interesting because it is such a diverse district
and the issues that that Milton has are not going
to be the same that Ripley has. And the issues
even in Putnam County, where I live and you live
in the current senator lives there as well, you know,
there is a Putnam County are are very very different.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
So how do you how do you prepare for that that.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
You know, I go to a you know, you go
to a meet with some constituents in you know, ravens
Wood and on a Monday. Then you go to meet
with constituents and in Milton on a Tuesday, and their
issues are quite a bit different. How do you prepare
yourself for that?
Speaker 15 (23:16):
So, you know, at the end of the day, I
think you have to you really just have to listen
to the people. They will tell you what they need.
They will tell you where the pain points are, and
I think oftentimes that gets forgotten, that gets overlooked.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
You know, you have to listen to the constituents and
you have to be able to remain flexible.
Speaker 15 (23:35):
Right, plans are great until you go to implement them
and then they all go out the windows sometimes, so
you have to remain flexible. You have to keep an
open mind, and you have to be able to explain
to people in the district that sometimes there's going to
be some compromise. And I think in today's day and age,
we often forget that we've lost the ability to communicate
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and talk with one another. I don't have to agree
with you, Dave, on everything, and you don't have to
agree with me. Discourse is good, but we have to
be able to find some common ground. And I think
being able to explain that to the folks in the district,
you know, the folks in Ripley, you know, if they're
concerned directly conflicts with the folks in Milton or in Hurricane,
I think we'll be able being able to articulate that
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and being able to help them to understand the overall vision,
the long term goal. I think West Virginians are you know,
they're filled with grit and fire, right They're they're hard workers,
They're used to sacrifice. I think they are okay with
with giving up some now for the greater good, right right.
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We are a selfless people. So I think just approaching
it honestly, you know, not trying to you know, I'm
blunt to a fault. Uh, the army did a pretty
good job of beating that out of me over the years.
So and you know it's well we received by some,
not by others. But you know, at this at this
point in my life, I am who I am. You know,
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I again, I'm doing this out of a sense of service.
You know, hopefully it works. Hopefully people can appreciate that.
And if they can't, then you know, it's not meant
to be.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
In the legislature. Right now, you're looking at a and
I have coined the phrase copyright Dave Allen twenty twenty
five all represent super duper majority. Okay, I mean twenty fourteen,
the Great Revolution happened, and then by now it is
and there's no there's no reason to believe that's going
to change anytime soon. But with that sometimes and the
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Democrats saw this too, you get fracturing within the party.
You get those that are far a little farther right,
and you get those a little bit more centrist, and
you get those that are moderate, and you get those
that you know, there's very just like they're were with
the Democrats, Travis. You get different types. If you had
to describe what type of Republican you are what would
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you what would you say?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Wow, that's a really tough question. You know, there are.
Speaker 15 (26:04):
I think from an economic perspective, I tend to be
more on the conservative side. With social issues, I tend
to be more of the middle ground. At the end
of the day, I think the commonality with all of
those folks, right, and I've had the pleasure of speaking
with a lot of them, is all of their hearts
are in the right place, right they I mean, they
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genuinely want to do good things for their people, for
their constituents, but they have to be able to get
on the same page, you know, we have to to
bring that together, right because at the end of the day,
from my perspective, it's more about people. It should be
more about people than politics. So it's again, whatever's good
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for the majority of my folks is where I'm gonna
is where I'm going to fall.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Why State Senate, because I mean that's normally and you
mentioned this your first full rant of politics, and I
always apout anybody that wants to wants to get involved.
But usually people will start out a little a little smaller,
maybe an executive committee or something, or maybe as you know,
even a city council or something like that and then
kind of work their way up in certainly the house
and that usually people go to the house. And why
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did you choose If you don't mind my asking, why
why did you choose State Center?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 15 (27:16):
So you know, you know me personally, Dave, I'm a
I'm a pretty busy guy, right to run a successful business.
I've got a family. You know, this is not something
that I necessarily need in my life. But if I
am going to do it, I'm going to do it
and make as big of a dent as I can.
And I really feel like that, you know, at this level,
I think that there's again there's a lot of great
folks in the legislature at this point that are trying
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to do the right things. And I think in order
to really move the needle, I think this is the
place I need to be. You know, I've got I
think I've got a unique skill set that I bring
to the table, coming from a finance background professionally, you know,
my military background, from an operational and a planning perspective,
uh and really just a leadership perspective. You know, I
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really think that I'm being called in this direction.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Talk about your campaign strategy. I mean, I know we're
we're ways away. I think, well, I actually I think
the first part of the question, why are you choosing
to announce now? Most people don't. I mean you announced,
I guess on social media or whatever a month or
so ago. But I mean most people don't do it
this far out. I mean we're just in September. Why
why now? And what does your campaign strategy look like?
Speaker 15 (28:26):
So I really feel like I've got I've got an
uphill battle, right, I've got an uphill climb. I know
a lot of folks in Mason County and Putnam County,
but I really feel like that, you know, there's no
time like the present, right. I really don't want to
be that guy that starts, you know, shoving political stuff
or shoving campaign stuff down people's throats too early. But
I want to be able to start the dialogue now.
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I want to be able to start that communication now
because at the end of the day, I have to
be able to listen to the people. Right, there's one
hundred and ten thousand roughly people in the district. That's
a lot of ground to cover. So so I'm doing
it now, and I'm putting in the work now ahead
of time. When it comes to campaign strategy, you know,
I've there's been campaign strategies that have reached out and
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at the end of the day, again I can only
be me, and for me, the strategy is really more
values based and less policy based. Not that i'm you know,
I will by all means address any policy issues that
people have in mind. But at the end of the day,
I think all that starts with values. Right, times change,
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the world changes that we live in, but we're rooted
in our values, you know, values like selfless service, like
accountability and integrity, a sense of duty and honestly personal courage. Right,
Like this position or any other political position, in my mind,
it is a representation of the people.
Speaker 10 (29:48):
Right.
Speaker 15 (29:49):
I don't care how good I am at being a senator.
I can't do it for you.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Right.
Speaker 15 (29:54):
I can give you the opportunity, I can give you
the tools, but it's up to the people to be
able to put those tools to work. And I think
it's time that the silent majority stands up and bands together. Right,
And that's really not asking people to do. I will
stand out in front, I will take the hits, I
will expose myself right to everything that's thrown at me.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
But at the end of the day, I'm doing it
for the people.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
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Speaker 4 (30:42):
So the end of the day, again, I'm a hometown boy.
I grew up here.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You know.
Speaker 15 (30:51):
The people, like I said, is its most natural resource
or its most valuable resource. And at the end of
the day, this is about self of service to me,
It's about integrity. It's about holding folks accountabile, accountable at
all levels, even myself holding myself personally accountable. I'm you know,
I'm not perfect, but I'm the guy that's going to
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give one hundred and ten percent every step of the way.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
It's not always going to be pretty.
Speaker 15 (31:17):
But if you want somebody that's going to shoot you
straight and work their tail off for you, then I'm
your guy.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Do you have a social media website anything?
Speaker 15 (31:26):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, so you can find me on Facebook.
It's Willard for WV or the website is Willard for
WV dot com.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
All right, we'll talk again soon. Wishing the best of luck.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Thanks, Dave, I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
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are being planned for the fall season. Also till just
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Speaker 9 (35:25):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
How you doing, buddy?
Speaker 9 (35:27):
I am doing fine.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
How are you? Long time? No see?
Speaker 14 (35:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:30):
And I'll let you and I get together too often. Yeah,
I guess that's smart.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
It's probably good.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
It's probably good, you know, better for the community that
you and I don't hang out together. It's probably You're
probably right about that.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
Uh, I guess.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Technically summer doesn't end until later this month, but most
people think of Labor Day as being the end of summer.
Talk about the spring and summer that was and Charleston,
from the bike races to regattas, so on and so forth.
Speaker 13 (35:54):
You know, I think over the last three years, the
spring and summer and Charleston has been just absolutely crazy
in both a logistical way and in terms of folks
having stuff to do. I mean, you know, kicking off
with the bike races having their got up. But I
think also it's some of the stuff that maybe not
see Like last night or Sunday night, I went out
to get some food downtown from my wife and I
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and they had the City Center Alive had a nice
little Jimmy Buffett tribute concert or something going on in
the park, and there were had to be a couple
hundred people sitting down there just having a good time
enjoying it. City Center and Live has been great, they've
taken a break, they're getting ready.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
To come back. Summer doesn't really events don't really end
in Charleston.
Speaker 13 (36:31):
I mean, we've got the Spartan Race, which is happening
down in Faye County is but the kickoff is this
Thursday here in Charleston.
Speaker 9 (36:38):
And that's going to be a huge bottle.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
I had DJ EJ on the show with Jim Strawn
on Friday, I think it was, and that is going
to be a huge event for West Virginia.
Speaker 9 (36:47):
But also for Charleston.
Speaker 13 (36:48):
Oh, its huge for Charleston. I mean, we're getting the
opening ceremonies here and a lot of folks staying. But really,
I mean, this is one of those ones where, you know,
all credit to Secretary Ruby and her her staff and
the Tourism Department.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
They really put this together.
Speaker 13 (37:00):
They started working with Tim Brady and the mayor to
get Charleston involved and it's it is really big for
the entire state. And it's one of those things where
we always have said, you know, all along, and I
was listening to your you know, your guest on before
this of talking about you know, the differences differences in
communities and things like that. But the biggest thing that
West Virginia has to realize is that what's good for
one of us is good for all of us.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
And that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 13 (37:22):
So when something big happens in Fayetteville, you know, remember
somebody comes, well why not, how come it's not happened
in Charleston. Well, it doesn't have to happen in Charleston
in order for it to benefit Charleston doesn't have to happen,
you know.
Speaker 10 (37:31):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (37:31):
South Charleston having their summer fest a couple of weeks
ago was a blast.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
I went down there, had a great time.
Speaker 13 (37:36):
It's just across the thing and people were downtown Charleston
eating dinner as well, and the same thing is true
when they were God, it happens in Charleston, people go
over to South Charleston. So it is a benefit to everybody.
But it has been a really fun summer. We had
to duck some some crazy weather early.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
On, but then it hasn't rained, has it rased since
I guess it's going to rain sometime this week.
Speaker 13 (37:54):
I think during Spartan hopeus everybody this is what it's
going to raid. But it has been really it has
been really fun. And then heading into the fall is
going to be great. City Center Live continues. We've got
another wrestling event in the park in a couple of weeks.
They've got a couple more concerts going on. We've got
that's the fall come in up. So we just continue
right on and change and change direction, playing maybe a
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cool down a little bit. But it's been really exciting,
and I think that what we have shown in Charleston.
I think if ten years ago, if the ten year
ago me would have said anything, it would be the
Charleston a summertime is the time people leave Charleston, And
now I think it's actually the opposite. I think it's
the time people come to Charleston and hang out, come
back and visit. And we're seeing that in the results
and that I know Tim could talk about a whole
(38:36):
lot more, but we're seeing the results of our hotels
and our restaurants businesses and everything.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
It's just it's been a great summer.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
You were talking about fest of all. Do you want
to note that there's going to be a press conference
I think held this morning. I think over at five Street.
We'll be covering that. We'll have it on the air
and on the news and whatever, And then tomorrow Zach Harrold,
who's a new executive director of Festival, is going to
be on the show with talk about Yeah, that press
eventcept for ten o'clock this morning.
Speaker 9 (38:59):
Zach Carrold will be on the show with it to
talk about it tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
And this thing on with the Spartan Races again, even
though it's happened in Fayetteville. You get the kickoff on
Thursday this week and it's going to be just another
even with what's predicted to be ranked either with that
could be an exciting time downtown.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
I feel like with that kind of race, they probably
like the rain.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Oh right, yeah, snow locusts, they don't care.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
I assume you're not running. I assume no.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
No, I was going to, but I got that thing
I gotta do. Uh So I want to talk about
the construction projects downtown. And you know, I get off
on Virginia Street every morning. A couple of the studios here,
and it seems like those buildings downtown, uh two projects
going off at the same time. There's always people out
there working when I hit town about seven o'clock, and
they work even on weekends. And those are we've got
some pretty big buildings coming to downtown Charleston.
Speaker 13 (39:50):
Just with those two, yeah, I feel like you almost
get sort of welcome to Charleston by cranes each morning,
and I think that's exciting. I mean, I know that
every now and then there's some traffic and you know,
those type of things, but seeing cranes in our town
is tremendous. I mean, the work that Remison Corporate's doing
on the TC Energy building, they're just I mean, they're
putting that thing together super quick. And then a couple
of weeks ago, the mayor met with the executives at
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Poka Valley about their new headquarters.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
And I got to go over. I'll tell you what,
that is a state.
Speaker 13 (40:17):
Of the art, beautiful building that they're putting together as
there as their headquarter right in the entrance to Charleston.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
It's very exciting. I mean, it's a fun time.
Speaker 13 (40:25):
I think between those two projects, you're probably looking close
to eighty five ninety million dollars worth of investment into
the city. But then you also see some other you
see other cranes around. Right, I'd sell probably four or
five street closures we've had to do because of HVAC
units or work or upgrades to buildings they're currently going on.
So there's a lot going on in the city. You know,
give us a minute if there's a closed lane or something.
But there's a lot going on in a lot of excitement,
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both inside or both outside and inside, especially when we
think about the five million dollar investment going on to
Coliseum Convention Center right now, which.
Speaker 9 (40:54):
Is what I want to get to.
Speaker 6 (40:55):
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Speaker 13 (41:13):
Yeah, so right now they're in the process and they're
moving awful quick. They've taken out all the old seats
and they're in the process. It's about a five million
dollar investment of redoing the seats. You know, when they
when they when Mary Jones and the city council back,
I guess it was what's seventeen twenty sixteen twenty seventeen
invested one hundred million dollars in the Colisseumic Convention Center.
At the time that they built the they essentially built
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the convention center, and that was the thing to do.
Nobody could have seen COVID come in and hurt the
convention industry the way it did, so that is coming
back now as well. But one of the things that
was kind of not done in that was the Colosseum
side of things. So we end up hiring OVG and
the Colisseum, the concerts, the family events, everything just blows
up and the next thing you know, they're coming to
us and saying, hey, we've really got to replace these seats,
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and we needed to and they needed to needed an
upgrade for a long time. Mostly, I think the folks
that we heard from the most folks with the state
high school basketball tournament to the state high school volleyball
tournament who've been sitting in those seats for years and
saying it's time to redo them.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
So blocked about a.
Speaker 13 (42:10):
Year and a half ago, blocked off about a twelve
week period to be able to redo all the seats,
and they're flying through it. So hopefully they'll be done
here soon, and well, I know they'll be done in
November because they've got concerts and events that are coming up.
I think warren Zeiders might be the first in early
November or somewhere in there.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
But it's exciting to get those new seats.
Speaker 13 (42:29):
It's going to be very beneficial to us, and I
think I only continue to allow OVG and everybody at
the Colisseum Convention Center to continue to sell that building
as they are the biggest economic driver in our city.
Speaker 6 (42:40):
Right now, we're talking again with Matt Suton, the chief
of Stafford Mayor, a good one. We did have a
question here about crowd barrier system. Actually the news department
asked me to ask about this. There's a resolution I
guess this council.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
Meet tonight tonight.
Speaker 6 (42:53):
Yeah, there's a resolution that's on the agenda tonight allowing
authorizing the city to purchase a crowd barrier system or
Mountain productions for the Connoseum Convention Center.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Tip.
Speaker 6 (43:03):
What's it all about?
Speaker 13 (43:04):
So it's really the sort of I guess the area
that goes around the stage and blocks off where the
seats are right now, they're just old bike racks. So
it's really just kind of the barrier that is more comfortable,
easy to use, and will be more durable than the
old bike racking system that we current that we currently
have in there. So when you think about like kind
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of in front of the stage and around the areas
in which you need people to not be around, that's
where they'll be able to use this barrier. So it's
really about just keeping and now we have a lot
of those, especially when we have sort of the heavy
metal concerts, you know, you'll need some barriers around the
pit area and that's what that is. So it's just
sort of upgrading that the existing what i'll call bike
rack that we currently use in something much more modern
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and much more durable that we won't have to we
won't have to change out very often.
Speaker 6 (43:49):
Also, there's a resolution we'll do this and we'll go
to break. There's a resolution looking at tonight's agenda authorizing
the city to enter to a contract for the purchase
and installation of security cameras own city owned park.
Speaker 13 (44:01):
Yeah, so we've been working on this with our head
of Emergency Services, Chad Jones, and Mayor has been working
with him for probably the last nine months to a year.
You know, we've invested, including the turf, over twenty million
dollars in our park facilities over the last six years.
And one of the things we haven't put in is
any cameras that it just allowed for to be able
to see what's going on, to be able to see
if there are any issues going on. Every now and
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then we'll have a problem and you'll be like, well,
you know, let's check the cameras that are not there. So,
just to modernize our parks and to protect the investment
that we've had, we decided to do this. It's about
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of cameras that
are going I believe in nine parks throughout the city
that don't already have cameras. And it's just another way
in which we can make sure that people can enjoy
our parks in a safe manner and that if something
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were to happen, then we have some accountability that we
can utilize our.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
Camera system for.
Speaker 13 (44:47):
So we started looking all across the country and people were,
you know, kind of like your homes where folks will say, well,
you mean you don't have a doorbell camera, they were
saying the same thing. To have got to have some
level of security in our parks to protect our investment,
and that's what we'll do tonight, he said.
Speaker 6 (45:00):
Charleston will get heavy metal shows question Mark.
Speaker 13 (45:02):
We have had heavy metal shows, yes, right, I mean
we've had quite a few in the Colosseum. I know
they've booked not my general genre of music, but I
got a lot of friends who are We've had We've
had quite a few.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
Absolutely.
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Speaker 9 (48:29):
Is here.
Speaker 6 (48:31):
Play our obligatory text, and I appreciate the text about
the town Center. Anything new to report with the town Center?
Speaker 13 (48:36):
Yeah, I mean I think that you know, I know
that there are some stores closed in and I know
that it's not heading you know, publicly heading inter right direction.
But I do feel like we have some positive momentum
with the owners of the building in terms of what
the future of the property looks like. Do I think
it's going to be tomorrow or the next day, No,
But I do think that we do have some conversations
in some positive momentum going as it relates to the
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future of that property.
Speaker 6 (48:58):
Are you at liberty to say what happens in those
conversations about the future of the property and what's going
to happen and what it what it needs to be.
Speaker 13 (49:06):
You know, when the when the mall was put in
right before I was born, I guess what the late
late seventies, eighties, eight eighty three. Yes, so you know
that that time frame, that was what was necessary to
help spur the economic growth of the of the city
of Charleston. And obviously there was some issues that came
along with that, but I feel like that that was
what was needed at that time. And now we have
to not only the city itself, but also the people
(49:29):
who own the property have to reimagine what's useful and
what can be the next economic growth and the economic
driver for the city of Charleston, and what that property
can be used for. You know, do I ever see
it being a fully packed retail center.
Speaker 20 (49:41):
No.
Speaker 13 (49:41):
I think that there are things that can occur in
that property and around it that can help spur the
next forty years of development in Charleston. It's just about
getting there and getting everybody on the same page and
getting the agreement in place. But we're in a better
place with those conversations than we were a year ago.
So I feel like that when you say.
Speaker 6 (49:57):
Matt, when you say that you don't ever for see
it being the retail center that it was, is it
is that because of where it's located, because of the downtown,
because you go to the Huntington mall and it is
booming out. My wife and I were in Columbus and
mothers so ago I said to on anybody that says
shopping malls or dead, have it been to east and lately?
Now that granted that may not that's a million, and
it's also a million like a million square feet. It
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may not be necessarily a good comparison.
Speaker 9 (50:23):
Uh and uh, but I mean it's.
Speaker 4 (50:26):
A different model.
Speaker 9 (50:27):
It's a different model. It's different mob.
Speaker 13 (50:28):
That's when Barbersville and the and the stuff they've done
down there. And I know that the mayor was with
may Tatum over the last couple of weeks at the
Municipal League where there was a lot of great conversation
about everything going on in the cities. Uh and and
at the Business Summer last week mostly focused around job
retention and job growth in economic development, and that's what
we're talking about, you know. But what they've done in
Barbersville out there was you could see everything's in one spot, right,
(50:50):
The mall's there, the Walmart's there, the Dicks, all the outsdoors.
We're a little bit spread out in truston right. So
we've got the south Rough Jerry in the mall. It
is its location, it is its indoor sort of model
that really you don't see in downtowns anymore. People look
for downtowns to be much more local. They look for
the local shops, They look for the you know, the
coffee places, the restaurants, the local shops. They don't necessarily
(51:12):
look for the big chains in a downtown. I don't
necessarily think that's what we want. We've got the big change.
There are just a couple of minutes outside of town
in South Ridge, and it works out very well for everybody.
And not everything has to be in one place. So
I think that the retail model is going to be
what the demand is for the retail and most of
that are these big, big stores, chain stores that already
exist out in South Ridge, and we have room to
(51:33):
grow out there. This can be something else.
Speaker 6 (51:35):
Any update here. Texter wants to know on the sports
complex that happened at the mall.
Speaker 4 (51:39):
So sports complex is tied directly to what's going on
at the mall.
Speaker 13 (51:42):
So, I mean, I think that we're working through not
only some additional funding opportunities that we have, but also
what the future of the mall is going to and
the property is going to hold. There's really you know,
as we started to get closer to the you know,
the construction documents being put together, there's really not a
whole lot of reason to rush forward with a sports
center until we understand what the future of them all
property is going to hold. So that's a big part
(52:03):
of what's going to happen with the sports center because
could there be more property available for the sports center,
could there be other things that go around it. All
that's got to be considered along with putting together the
funding for it. But again, that was a lot of
you know, I said with the mayor has been at
the Municipal League and the business summit, and it's worked
out really well while she's been gone a lot, and
that's why I'm here today. It's worked out really well
(52:24):
because you get to talk to other mayors and other
legislators about economic growth and economic development and what the
future holds. We're really excited for this upcoming legislative session
and working with our legislators to really talk about the
future of West Virginia because I think now we've got
people on the same page.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
We're exciting about that.
Speaker 6 (52:39):
Matt's always pleasure to have on the show.
Speaker 9 (52:40):
We got to go. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it, Matt.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
I appreciate you. Budy all right, we'll be.
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Back with the show again later.
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I'll be back with Metro News midday coming up at
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zero eight. I do want to tell you about an
event that's going to be happening later in the month.
It's Thursday, September the eighteenth at Mount West Community and
(02:45):
Technical College, which is located in Huntington. It's called Together
We Thrive Drug Prevention and Family engagement being hosted by
the Inspiring Dreams network here to talk about it is
doctor Barbara Brady. Good morning, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Did I get everything right? All the all the particulars
right there?
Speaker 8 (03:02):
You did?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
All right?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
All right?
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Well I can go home then, right because everything's done absolutely,
because everybody thinks it's you know, I said, I mean,
is it gonna have?
Speaker 9 (03:11):
At what point today are we going.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
To stop saying it's Monday? You know, two three o'clock
in the afternoon. Time to go home.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Probably it's a good thing. I remember, today's too.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Better you than me. First of all, I want to
talk about the Inspiring Dreams Network. What kind of work
do you do? What's a mission statement behind? Just talk
about the Inspiring Dreams Network.
Speaker 10 (03:30):
Well, Inspiring Dreams Network trains and supports adults who work
with youth across the state. Our mission is to foster,
equip and empower stronger resilient community network that inspire, prepare,
and support youth to thrive. And our vision is we
(03:52):
envision a future where every community is equipped and empowered
to nurture the dreams, resilience and successive youth. So basically,
we support adults across the state. We're really trying to
build strong community networks of adults who are prepared to
support at risk youth. As you probably know, West Virginia
(04:16):
has the highest opioid death rate in the nation, almost
a third higher than the next highest state, which is Conduck, Kentucky.
And our opiloid death rate is twice about twice what
the national average is, which means we have a lot
(04:37):
of kids who are struggling in homes with parents who
are dying of drug overdoses, being arrested. You know, a
lot of neglect, family dysfunction that impact kids. And so
we're working to empower adults to support them so they
can overcome and thrive.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
It's it's it's a great project and great work that
you're doing. And you know, we've heard this doctor h
for a couple of decades now that West Virginia leads
the nation in opioid debts and and all of these
all all these bad things. Why do you think that is?
That's a million dollar question. But why why does West
(05:20):
Virginia struggle with this more than say Arkansas or Vermont
or whatever, what what what other state?
Speaker 7 (05:28):
That's a good question.
Speaker 10 (05:29):
I think part of it is that we don't focus
enough on prevention.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
You know a lot of poverty, you know a lot of.
Speaker 10 (05:41):
Just negative national statistics, a lot of adverse childhood experiences,
which is neglect, family dysfunction, and abuse.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
So a lot of adults in West Virginia are.
Speaker 10 (06:03):
Don't really like to use the word victims, but I'll
say victims of adverse childhood experiences.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
And so.
Speaker 10 (06:11):
Any individual who is impacted by adverse childhood experiences is
more likely to self medicate, if you will use drugs
to kill the pain. And so it's just this vicious cycle.
It's a multi generational cycle of abuse, neglect, family dysfunction.
(06:33):
Another interesting piece of data about West Virginia is what
we know is adverse childhood experiences impacts not only mental health,
and impacts physical health and impacts You're more likely to
have cancer, diabetes, overweight, and if not treated, if there's
(06:58):
not some mitigation, it leads to early death. And West
Virginia has the lowest life expectancy in the nation. So
it's just a multi generational issue that Inspiring Dreams Network
is working to be part of the solution. Teaching coping,
helping adults teach themselves and kids coping skills, positive youth development,
(07:26):
and those kinds of things. So this event that's coming
up in Huntington is, you know, part of our solution.
We have a small grant from the West Virginia Youth
Alliance Promise that we're putting on this event. It's called
Together We Thrive Drug Prevention and Family Engagement. It's Thursday,
(07:50):
September eighteenth, from five to eight pm. We're going to
provide free food so parents, really encourage parents, families, community
folks to come in. We're going to provide free food
so you can come straight from work, have dinner, and
(08:10):
then we're going to have several different activities.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
You know, I'm going to go back to the work
that you're doing and then we'll focus on the event.
I'm a kid of the nineteen eighties, you know, and
we were to just say no generation. And I say
this to talk about prevention a little bit. We were
the just say no Nancy Reagan on the on TV,
you know, just just say here's your brain on drugs,
you know, all the public service hencements, and for one
reason or another that that didn't stick. Thankfully it did
(08:37):
with me, but it didn't stick with a lot of
other people. Okay, it probably stuck with me because I
had parents who would have who were part of my
even though they were here's were divorced, they were still
part of my life. So that's probably had a big
part to do with it. But then we tried different
things over the years in the nineties there, it was
a different way in the two thousands. And what's the
I mean when it comes to prevention, I mean, have
(08:58):
we learned anything from the past in your opinion, doctor
that a lot of these things that we tried in
the past just didn't work. I mean, you know, science
is always about evolving and trying different things. What have
we learned from maybe some of the mistakes or some
of the missteps out of the past.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
Well, the reason just say no doesn't work. You're not
building skills for individuals to cope with the pain that's
caused by adverse childhood experiences. And so there are research
based strategies that we know works. So helping kids build resilience,
(09:36):
for instance, So we teach organizations how to specific strategies
to help kids build resilience and overcome, helping them develop
coping skills, calm down strategies, emotional regulation strategies. You don't
know what you don't know, and you know, deal with
(10:00):
a child who lacks emotional regulation can be very frustrating.
You can become frustrated yourself. So we're not only teaching
them how to help kids calm down, we're helping them
be able to take a step back and not compound
(10:20):
the problem or not re traumatize a child.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
So when we know that certain things can a lot
of people don't like the word trigger, but trigger a child.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
It could be a sound, a smell, a phrase that
someone says that makes them want to stay safe, makes
them scared, makes them feel like, you know, those emotions
of feeling threatened. And so that's where we have to
start addressing the child, helping them recognize their emotions, finding
(11:01):
out what's triggering them, teaching them emotional regulation skills. And
so if we don't build the child, they're going to
grow up to be emotionally unregulated adults.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
And again the cycle is going to the.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Cycle continues there. We're getting talking to get to a doctor.
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Speaker 9 (11:29):
Let's go back to this event again.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
It's September the eighteenth at Mount West Community and Technical College,
and I was reading over your flyer, doctor. A lot
of folks come together, you know, to make this happen.
Some of your partners. If I leave one off, you
could tell me the West Virginia Promise Youth Alliance, Marshall University,
School of Health, Technical Assistance Centers, and others. Just at
a lot of folks working on this project to make
(11:52):
it happen.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
Right, and Mount West is also donating their facility.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Right.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
It's a beautiful facility, by the way, if you've never
I've been there. Very nice facility it is.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
And so we really want this to be a family event.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
Lots of times parents won't go to things because they
lack childcare in the evening.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
So we're going to have children's activities. In fact, we're
going to be.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Help letting them practice some calm down strategies, some coping strategies,
some stay safe get strategies, and having fun.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
We're not going to be lecturing them or anything like that.
Speaker 10 (12:29):
We're going to play games and have fun, and so
we're really excited that we're not only engaging the parents
and community members but also having some fun activities for kids.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
And where can people learn more about your work about
this event and did they need to register ahead of time?
Give us all the details.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
There is a registration link.
Speaker 10 (12:52):
We would like for you to register ahead of time,
so we'll kind of have an idea of how many
people will attend.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
But you can also just show up.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
But if you go to the Inspiring Dreams Network website,
which is just Inspiring Dreams Network dot org, it's the
first thing you'll see on our page, and there's a
registration link.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
There's a schedule.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
Some of the things that will be going on are
We will have a presenter from the Community Prevention Liaison,
Josh Murphy, who will be talking about hidden in Plain Sight.
We know that the earlier an individual gets addicted, the
(13:35):
more difficult it is to come out of the addiction,
and so we're not doing this to punish kids, but
there's a lot of temptation, lots of things and lots
of ways, lots of things that you wouldn't even think
is a drug, and so I'm excited about that. He's
going to talk about hidden in plain sight maybe how
(13:57):
to catch it early before kids really get addicted. We're
also going to have a Narcan training demonstration and people
will receive free Narcan and talk to parents and family
members and community members about an evidence based program from SAMSA.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
It's called Talk.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
They hear you and really communicating with your children in
a positive way is one of the best ways to
have a healthy relationship.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
So it sounds like you got a whole lot going
on there. And again, give us that website again.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
It is www.
Speaker 10 (14:39):
Inspiring Dreams Network dot org.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
So just like it's spelled okay arian.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
That's another I think I think we got to we
wish you the best of luck with your events. Is
like you're doing a lot of great work and it's
going to be September the eighteenth a Mountain West Community
of Technical College, which is located in Huntington. Doctor, I
appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Thanks thank you, Dave, thank you for having all right.
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It may be an off year for elections in West Virginia,
but some people, many in fact, are looking ahead to
next year's election. One of those people's Travis Willard, a
Republican who wants to be State Senator from District Force
(17:53):
he currently held by Senator Eric Tarr. Travis joins us
this morning at the Jeric Construction Studios. Good morning, sir,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Good morning Dave, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Thank you for being the first of all give us
a bio. Travis wild Who is Travis Wilder.
Speaker 15 (18:05):
So, I'm a West Virginia boy, born and raised. I've
spent my entire life between Mason and Putnam Counties. When
I was born. My parents lived in Buffalo and then
they moved to Point Pleasant, So I grew up there,
went through all my school there. My son of Marshall
son of University of Charleston as well, So spent my
entire life here.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
So this is your first foray into politics?
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Is that right?
Speaker 10 (18:28):
It is? It is so?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
So what made you decide to want to run?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
You know, Dave?
Speaker 15 (18:36):
I spent twenty four years in the army, and thank
you for your service by day. You know, it really
was an honor and a privilege. I joined on a
whim when I was seventeen and then honestly fell in
love with it. Nine to eleven happened, and it really
inspired that sense of service. And throughout my tenure in
the military, I had some great leaders, some great mentors,
(18:57):
and they really inspired me that sense of selfless service.
So for me, this foray into politics is a continuation
of that selfless service. I really believe that's what leadership
should be about. It shouldn't be about egos or titles.
It should be about standing up for those who can't
stand up for themselves and ultimately given the citizens of
(19:17):
West Virginia the opportunities they need.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
To succeed in a safe and healthy environment.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
What do you see Travis as the biggest needs of
your district?
Speaker 15 (19:29):
You know, that is a really big question. We have
a lot of opportunity coming to district for for the
first time in a long time. We've got the new
core plant opening up. There's some other facilities in the
northern end of Mason County are that are scheduled to progress,
and we hope that they do. With that being said,
we have major, major infrastructure issues. Our roads are in
(19:52):
a lot of areas falling apart. We still have folks
in Mason and Putnam County that still don't have running
water and it's twenty twenty five. That's a problem. On
top of that, we have, you know, our I don't
feel like our school systems are ready. I don't think
they're ready to support the influx of people moving in
the area. I mean, we're talking thousands and thousands of jobs.
(20:13):
And my fear is that those folks are gonna, you know,
they're gonna move right across the border in Ohio, you know,
and just commute to work. So we're gonna we're gonna
lose those those citizens.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
This district is interesting and again we're talking with Travis Willard,
a Republican candidate for state Senate. This district. Travis is
interesting because there's not a whole lot of areas in
the state, maybe eastern Panhandle, maybe the Morgantown area that
can say we're preparing for an influx of people, because
usually it's the exact opposite.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
And let's face it, you know, ten years.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Ago we were facing that in this district. But it's different,
and the challenges I think can be different. I mean,
you know, we're not we're not bleeding population in this
district that you want to represent like we are in say,
areas of so other in West Virginia or whatever. But
there are still challenges that come with that.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
There are.
Speaker 15 (21:05):
It is absolutely a great problem to have, and the
biggest challenge in my mind is, you know, how do
we how do we capitalize on this growth because ultimately
we want our kids to be able to stay here,
you know, be able to have jobs that they can
raise a family on. But how do we capitalize on
that growth and not lose the values that make West
Virginia what it is. I firmly believe that the people
(21:28):
are our greatest natural resource. That's why I've continued to
stay here. Right Like a lot of my generation they
left the state, I chose to stay because I believe
I believe in those values and I believe that's what
makes West Virginia great is the people. So it is
a great problem to have, but we've got a lot
of work to do. We need some vision, we need
(21:50):
some folks that are able to look ten, fifteen, twenty
years down the road prepare for that growth. And again,
I'm very thankful we've got the growth come, but I
feel like that we are at a point where it
could either be a great thing or or we're going
to get left further behind.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Explain the district to us. District for so, it is kind.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Of an interesting district.
Speaker 15 (22:12):
So in Putnam County, it's basically everything south of the
River in Putnam County, so Tay's Valley, Hurricane, the whole
southern end of the county. It bleeds over into Cable
County a little bit and encompasses Milton and Keloding, It's
all of Mason County, and then it is essentially the
western part of Jackson County. So Ripley, Ravenswood evans that
(22:35):
area as well.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
It is interesting because it is such a diverse district
and the issues that that Milton has are not going
to be the same that Ripley has. And the issues
even in Putnam County, where I live and you live
in the current senator lives there as well, you know,
there is a Putnam County are are very very different.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
So how do you how do you prepare for that that.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
You know, I go to a you know, you go
to a meet with some constituents in you know, ravens
Wood and on a Monday. Then you go to meet
with constituents and in Milton on a Tuesday, and their
issues are quite a bit different. How do you prepare
yourself for that?
Speaker 15 (23:16):
So, you know, at the end of the day, I
think you have to you really just have to listen
to the people. They will tell you what they need.
They will tell you where the pain points are, and
I think oftentimes that gets forgotten, that gets overlooked.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
You know, you have to listen to the constituents and
you have to be able to remain flexible.
Speaker 15 (23:35):
Right, plans are great until you go to implement them
and then they all go out the windows sometimes, so
you have to remain flexible. You have to keep an
open mind, and you have to be able to explain
to people in the district that sometimes there's going to
be some compromise. And I think in today's day and age,
we often forget that we've lost the ability to communicate
(23:55):
and talk with one another. I don't have to agree
with you, Dave, on everything, and you don't have to
agree with me. Discourse is good, but we have to
be able to find some common ground. And I think
being able to explain that to the folks in the district,
you know, the folks in Ripley, you know, if they're
concerned directly conflicts with the folks in Milton or in Hurricane,
I think we'll be able being able to articulate that
(24:16):
and being able to help them to understand the overall vision,
the long term goal. I think West Virginians are you know,
they're filled with grit and fire, right They're they're hard workers,
They're used to sacrifice. I think they are okay with
with giving up some now for the greater good, right right.
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We are a selfless people. So I think just approaching
it honestly, you know, not trying to you know, I'm
blunt to a fault. Uh, the army did a pretty
good job of beating that out of me over the years.
So and you know it's well we received by some,
not by others. But you know, at this at this
point in my life, I am who I am. You know,
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I again, I'm doing this out of a sense of service.
You know, hopefully it works. Hopefully people can appreciate that.
And if they can't, then you know, it's not meant
to be.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
In the legislature. Right now, you're looking at a and
I have coined the phrase copyright Dave Allen twenty twenty
five all represent super duper majority. Okay, I mean twenty fourteen,
the Great Revolution happened, and then by now it is
and there's no there's no reason to believe that's going
to change anytime soon. But with that sometimes and the
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Democrats saw this too, you get fracturing within the party.
You get those that are far a little farther right,
and you get those a little bit more centrist, and
you get those that are moderate, and you get those
that you know, there's very just like they're were with
the Democrats, Travis. You get different types. If you had
to describe what type of Republican you are what would
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you what would you say?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Wow, that's a really tough question. You know, there are.
Speaker 15 (26:04):
I think from an economic perspective, I tend to be
more on the conservative side. With social issues, I tend
to be more of the middle ground. At the end
of the day, I think the commonality with all of
those folks, right, and I've had the pleasure of speaking
with a lot of them, is all of their hearts
are in the right place, right they I mean, they
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genuinely want to do good things for their people, for
their constituents, but they have to be able to get
on the same page, you know, we have to to
bring that together, right because at the end of the day,
from my perspective, it's more about people. It should be
more about people than politics. So it's again, whatever's good
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for the majority of my folks is where I'm gonna
is where I'm going to fall.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Why State Senate, because I mean that's normally and you
mentioned this your first full rant of politics, and I
always apout anybody that wants to wants to get involved.
But usually people will start out a little a little smaller,
maybe an executive committee or something, or maybe as you know,
even a city council or something like that and then
kind of work their way up in certainly the house
and that usually people go to the house. And why
(27:10):
did you choose If you don't mind my asking, why
why did you choose State Center?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 15 (27:16):
So you know, you know me personally, Dave, I'm a
I'm a pretty busy guy, right to run a successful business.
I've got a family. You know, this is not something
that I necessarily need in my life. But if I
am going to do it, I'm going to do it
and make as big of a dent as I can.
And I really feel like that, you know, at this level,
I think that there's again there's a lot of great
folks in the legislature at this point that are trying
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to do the right things. And I think in order
to really move the needle, I think this is the
place I need to be. You know, I've got I
think I've got a unique skill set that I bring
to the table, coming from a finance background professionally, you know,
my military background, from an operational and a planning perspective,
uh and really just a leadership perspective. You know, I
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really think that I'm being called in this direction.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Talk about your campaign strategy. I mean, I know we're
we're ways away. I think, well, I actually I think
the first part of the question, why are you choosing
to announce now? Most people don't. I mean you announced,
I guess on social media or whatever a month or
so ago. But I mean most people don't do it
this far out. I mean we're just in September. Why
why now? And what does your campaign strategy look like?
Speaker 15 (28:26):
So I really feel like I've got I've got an
uphill battle, right, I've got an uphill climb. I know
a lot of folks in Mason County and Putnam County,
but I really feel like that, you know, there's no
time like the present, right. I really don't want to
be that guy that starts, you know, shoving political stuff
or shoving campaign stuff down people's throats too early. But
I want to be able to start the dialogue now.
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I want to be able to start that communication now
because at the end of the day, I have to
be able to listen to the people. Right, there's one
hundred and ten thousand roughly people in the district. That's
a lot of ground to cover. So so I'm doing
it now, and I'm putting in the work now ahead
of time. When it comes to campaign strategy, you know,
I've there's been campaign strategies that have reached out and
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at the end of the day, again I can only
be me, and for me, the strategy is really more
values based and less policy based. Not that i'm you know,
I will by all means address any policy issues that
people have in mind. But at the end of the day,
I think all that starts with values. Right, times change,
(29:29):
the world changes that we live in, but we're rooted
in our values, you know, values like selfless service, like
accountability and integrity, a sense of duty and honestly personal courage. Right,
Like this position or any other political position, in my mind,
it is a representation of the people.
Speaker 10 (29:48):
Right.
Speaker 15 (29:49):
I don't care how good I am at being a senator.
I can't do it for you.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Right.
Speaker 15 (29:54):
I can give you the opportunity, I can give you
the tools, but it's up to the people to be
able to put those tools to work. And I think
it's time that the silent majority stands up and bands together. Right,
And that's really not asking people to do. I will
stand out in front, I will take the hits, I
will expose myself right to everything that's thrown at me.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
But at the end of the day, I'm doing it
for the people.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
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Speaker 4 (30:42):
So the end of the day, again, I'm a hometown boy.
I grew up here.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You know.
Speaker 15 (30:51):
The people, like I said, is its most natural resource
or its most valuable resource. And at the end of
the day, this is about self of service to me,
It's about integrity. It's about holding folks accountabile, accountable at
all levels, even myself holding myself personally accountable. I'm you know,
I'm not perfect, but I'm the guy that's going to
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give one hundred and ten percent every step of the way.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
It's not always going to be pretty.
Speaker 15 (31:17):
But if you want somebody that's going to shoot you
straight and work their tail off for you, then I'm
your guy.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Do you have a social media website anything?
Speaker 15 (31:26):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, so you can find me on Facebook.
It's Willard for WV or the website is Willard for
WV dot com.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
All right, we'll talk again soon. Wishing the best of luck.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Thanks, Dave, I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
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Speaker 9 (35:25):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
How you doing, buddy?
Speaker 9 (35:27):
I am doing fine.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
How are you? Long time? No see?
Speaker 14 (35:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:30):
And I'll let you and I get together too often. Yeah,
I guess that's smart.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
It's probably good.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
It's probably good, you know, better for the community that
you and I don't hang out together. It's probably You're
probably right about that.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
Uh, I guess.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Technically summer doesn't end until later this month, but most
people think of Labor Day as being the end of summer.
Talk about the spring and summer that was and Charleston,
from the bike races to regattas, so on and so forth.
Speaker 13 (35:54):
You know, I think over the last three years, the
spring and summer and Charleston has been just absolutely crazy
in both a logistical way and in terms of folks
having stuff to do. I mean, you know, kicking off
with the bike races having their got up. But I
think also it's some of the stuff that maybe not
see Like last night or Sunday night, I went out
to get some food downtown from my wife and I
(36:15):
and they had the City Center Alive had a nice
little Jimmy Buffett tribute concert or something going on in
the park, and there were had to be a couple
hundred people sitting down there just having a good time
enjoying it. City Center and Live has been great, they've
taken a break, they're getting ready.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
To come back. Summer doesn't really events don't really end
in Charleston.
Speaker 13 (36:31):
I mean, we've got the Spartan Race, which is happening
down in Faye County is but the kickoff is this
Thursday here in Charleston.
Speaker 9 (36:38):
And that's going to be a huge bottle.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
I had DJ EJ on the show with Jim Strawn
on Friday, I think it was, and that is going
to be a huge event for West Virginia.
Speaker 9 (36:47):
But also for Charleston.
Speaker 13 (36:48):
Oh, its huge for Charleston. I mean, we're getting the
opening ceremonies here and a lot of folks staying. But really,
I mean, this is one of those ones where, you know,
all credit to Secretary Ruby and her her staff and
the Tourism Department.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
They really put this together.
Speaker 13 (37:00):
They started working with Tim Brady and the mayor to
get Charleston involved and it's it is really big for
the entire state. And it's one of those things where
we always have said, you know, all along, and I
was listening to your you know, your guest on before
this of talking about you know, the differences differences in
communities and things like that. But the biggest thing that
West Virginia has to realize is that what's good for
one of us is good for all of us.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
And that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 13 (37:22):
So when something big happens in Fayetteville, you know, remember
somebody comes, well why not, how come it's not happened
in Charleston. Well, it doesn't have to happen in Charleston
in order for it to benefit Charleston doesn't have to happen,
you know.
Speaker 10 (37:31):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (37:31):
South Charleston having their summer fest a couple of weeks
ago was a blast.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
I went down there, had a great time.
Speaker 13 (37:36):
It's just across the thing and people were downtown Charleston
eating dinner as well, and the same thing is true
when they were God, it happens in Charleston, people go
over to South Charleston. So it is a benefit to everybody.
But it has been a really fun summer. We had
to duck some some crazy weather early.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
On, but then it hasn't rained, has it rased since
I guess it's going to rain sometime this week.
Speaker 13 (37:54):
I think during Spartan hopeus everybody this is what it's
going to raid. But it has been really it has
been really fun. And then heading into the fall is
going to be great. City Center Live continues. We've got
another wrestling event in the park in a couple of weeks.
They've got a couple more concerts going on. We've got
that's the fall come in up. So we just continue
right on and change and change direction, playing maybe a
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cool down a little bit. But it's been really exciting,
and I think that what we have shown in Charleston.
I think if ten years ago, if the ten year
ago me would have said anything, it would be the
Charleston a summertime is the time people leave Charleston, And
now I think it's actually the opposite. I think it's
the time people come to Charleston and hang out, come
back and visit. And we're seeing that in the results
and that I know Tim could talk about a whole
(38:36):
lot more, but we're seeing the results of our hotels
and our restaurants businesses and everything.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
It's just it's been a great summer.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
You were talking about fest of all. Do you want
to note that there's going to be a press conference
I think held this morning. I think over at five Street.
We'll be covering that. We'll have it on the air
and on the news and whatever, And then tomorrow Zach Harrold,
who's a new executive director of Festival, is going to
be on the show with talk about Yeah, that press
eventcept for ten o'clock this morning.
Speaker 9 (38:59):
Zach Carrold will be on the show with it to
talk about it tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
And this thing on with the Spartan Races again, even
though it's happened in Fayetteville. You get the kickoff on
Thursday this week and it's going to be just another
even with what's predicted to be ranked either with that
could be an exciting time downtown.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
I feel like with that kind of race, they probably
like the rain.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Oh right, yeah, snow locusts, they don't care.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
I assume you're not running. I assume no.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
No, I was going to, but I got that thing
I gotta do. Uh So I want to talk about
the construction projects downtown. And you know, I get off
on Virginia Street every morning. A couple of the studios here,
and it seems like those buildings downtown, uh two projects
going off at the same time. There's always people out
there working when I hit town about seven o'clock, and
they work even on weekends. And those are we've got
some pretty big buildings coming to downtown Charleston.
Speaker 13 (39:50):
Just with those two, yeah, I feel like you almost
get sort of welcome to Charleston by cranes each morning,
and I think that's exciting. I mean, I know that
every now and then there's some traffic and you know,
those type of things, but seeing cranes in our town
is tremendous. I mean, the work that Remison Corporate's doing
on the TC Energy building, they're just I mean, they're
putting that thing together super quick. And then a couple
of weeks ago, the mayor met with the executives at
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Poka Valley about their new headquarters.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
And I got to go over. I'll tell you what,
that is a state.
Speaker 13 (40:17):
Of the art, beautiful building that they're putting together as
there as their headquarter right in the entrance to Charleston.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
It's very exciting. I mean, it's a fun time.
Speaker 13 (40:25):
I think between those two projects, you're probably looking close
to eighty five ninety million dollars worth of investment into
the city. But then you also see some other you
see other cranes around. Right, I'd sell probably four or
five street closures we've had to do because of HVAC
units or work or upgrades to buildings they're currently going on.
So there's a lot going on in the city. You know,
give us a minute if there's a closed lane or something.
But there's a lot going on in a lot of excitement,
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both inside or both outside and inside, especially when we
think about the five million dollar investment going on to
Coliseum Convention Center right now, which.
Speaker 9 (40:54):
Is what I want to get to.
Speaker 6 (40:55):
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Speaker 13 (41:13):
Yeah, so right now they're in the process and they're
moving awful quick. They've taken out all the old seats
and they're in the process. It's about a five million
dollar investment of redoing the seats. You know, when they
when they when Mary Jones and the city council back,
I guess it was what's seventeen twenty sixteen twenty seventeen
invested one hundred million dollars in the Colisseumic Convention Center.
At the time that they built the they essentially built
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the convention center, and that was the thing to do.
Nobody could have seen COVID come in and hurt the
convention industry the way it did, so that is coming
back now as well. But one of the things that
was kind of not done in that was the Colosseum
side of things. So we end up hiring OVG and
the Colisseum, the concerts, the family events, everything just blows
up and the next thing you know, they're coming to
us and saying, hey, we've really got to replace these seats,
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and we needed to and they needed to needed an
upgrade for a long time. Mostly, I think the folks
that we heard from the most folks with the state
high school basketball tournament to the state high school volleyball
tournament who've been sitting in those seats for years and
saying it's time to redo them.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
So blocked about a.
Speaker 13 (42:10):
Year and a half ago, blocked off about a twelve
week period to be able to redo all the seats,
and they're flying through it. So hopefully they'll be done
here soon, and well, I know they'll be done in
November because they've got concerts and events that are coming up.
I think warren Zeiders might be the first in early
November or somewhere in there.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
But it's exciting to get those new seats.
Speaker 13 (42:29):
It's going to be very beneficial to us, and I
think I only continue to allow OVG and everybody at
the Colisseum Convention Center to continue to sell that building
as they are the biggest economic driver in our city.
Speaker 6 (42:40):
Right now, we're talking again with Matt Suton, the chief
of Stafford Mayor, a good one. We did have a
question here about crowd barrier system. Actually the news department
asked me to ask about this. There's a resolution I
guess this council.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
Meet tonight tonight.
Speaker 6 (42:53):
Yeah, there's a resolution that's on the agenda tonight allowing
authorizing the city to purchase a crowd barrier system or
Mountain productions for the Connoseum Convention Center.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Tip.
Speaker 6 (43:03):
What's it all about?
Speaker 13 (43:04):
So it's really the sort of I guess the area
that goes around the stage and blocks off where the
seats are right now, they're just old bike racks. So
it's really just kind of the barrier that is more comfortable,
easy to use, and will be more durable than the
old bike racking system that we current that we currently
have in there. So when you think about like kind
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of in front of the stage and around the areas
in which you need people to not be around, that's
where they'll be able to use this barrier. So it's
really about just keeping and now we have a lot
of those, especially when we have sort of the heavy
metal concerts, you know, you'll need some barriers around the
pit area and that's what that is. So it's just
sort of upgrading that the existing what i'll call bike
rack that we currently use in something much more modern
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and much more durable that we won't have to we
won't have to change out very often.
Speaker 6 (43:49):
Also, there's a resolution we'll do this and we'll go
to break. There's a resolution looking at tonight's agenda authorizing
the city to enter to a contract for the purchase
and installation of security cameras own city owned park.
Speaker 13 (44:01):
Yeah, so we've been working on this with our head
of Emergency Services, Chad Jones, and Mayor has been working
with him for probably the last nine months to a year.
You know, we've invested, including the turf, over twenty million
dollars in our park facilities over the last six years.
And one of the things we haven't put in is
any cameras that it just allowed for to be able
to see what's going on, to be able to see
if there are any issues going on. Every now and
(44:21):
then we'll have a problem and you'll be like, well,
you know, let's check the cameras that are not there. So,
just to modernize our parks and to protect the investment
that we've had, we decided to do this. It's about
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of cameras that
are going I believe in nine parks throughout the city
that don't already have cameras. And it's just another way
in which we can make sure that people can enjoy
our parks in a safe manner and that if something
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were to happen, then we have some accountability that we
can utilize our.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
Camera system for.
Speaker 13 (44:47):
So we started looking all across the country and people were,
you know, kind of like your homes where folks will say, well,
you mean you don't have a doorbell camera, they were
saying the same thing. To have got to have some
level of security in our parks to protect our investment,
and that's what we'll do tonight, he said.
Speaker 6 (45:00):
Charleston will get heavy metal shows question Mark.
Speaker 13 (45:02):
We have had heavy metal shows, yes, right, I mean
we've had quite a few in the Colosseum. I know
they've booked not my general genre of music, but I
got a lot of friends who are We've had We've
had quite a few.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
Absolutely.
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Speaker 9 (48:29):
Is here.
Speaker 6 (48:31):
Play our obligatory text, and I appreciate the text about
the town Center. Anything new to report with the town Center?
Speaker 13 (48:36):
Yeah, I mean I think that you know, I know
that there are some stores closed in and I know
that it's not heading you know, publicly heading inter right direction.
But I do feel like we have some positive momentum
with the owners of the building in terms of what
the future of the property looks like. Do I think
it's going to be tomorrow or the next day, No,
But I do think that we do have some conversations
in some positive momentum going as it relates to the
(48:57):
future of that property.
Speaker 6 (48:58):
Are you at liberty to say what happens in those
conversations about the future of the property and what's going
to happen and what it what it needs to be.
Speaker 13 (49:06):
You know, when the when the mall was put in
right before I was born, I guess what the late
late seventies, eighties, eight eighty three. Yes, so you know
that that time frame, that was what was necessary to
help spur the economic growth of the of the city
of Charleston. And obviously there was some issues that came
along with that, but I feel like that that was
what was needed at that time. And now we have
to not only the city itself, but also the people
(49:29):
who own the property have to reimagine what's useful and
what can be the next economic growth and the economic
driver for the city of Charleston, and what that property
can be used for. You know, do I ever see
it being a fully packed retail center.
Speaker 20 (49:41):
No.
Speaker 13 (49:41):
I think that there are things that can occur in
that property and around it that can help spur the
next forty years of development in Charleston. It's just about
getting there and getting everybody on the same page and
getting the agreement in place. But we're in a better
place with those conversations than we were a year ago.
So I feel like that when you say.
Speaker 6 (49:57):
Matt, when you say that you don't ever for see
it being the retail center that it was, is it
is that because of where it's located, because of the downtown,
because you go to the Huntington mall and it is
booming out. My wife and I were in Columbus and
mothers so ago I said to on anybody that says
shopping malls or dead, have it been to east and lately?
Now that granted that may not that's a million, and
it's also a million like a million square feet. It
(50:19):
may not be necessarily a good comparison.
Speaker 9 (50:23):
Uh and uh, but I mean it's.
Speaker 4 (50:26):
A different model.
Speaker 9 (50:27):
It's a different model. It's different mob.
Speaker 13 (50:28):
That's when Barbersville and the and the stuff they've done
down there. And I know that the mayor was with
may Tatum over the last couple of weeks at the
Municipal League where there was a lot of great conversation
about everything going on in the cities. Uh and and
at the Business Summer last week mostly focused around job
retention and job growth in economic development, and that's what
we're talking about, you know. But what they've done in
Barbersville out there was you could see everything's in one spot, right,
(50:50):
The mall's there, the Walmart's there, the Dicks, all the outsdoors.
We're a little bit spread out in truston right. So
we've got the south Rough Jerry in the mall. It
is its location, it is its indoor sort of model
that really you don't see in downtowns anymore. People look
for downtowns to be much more local. They look for
the local shops, They look for the you know, the
coffee places, the restaurants, the local shops. They don't necessarily
(51:12):
look for the big chains in a downtown. I don't
necessarily think that's what we want. We've got the big change.
There are just a couple of minutes outside of town
in South Ridge, and it works out very well for everybody.
And not everything has to be in one place. So
I think that the retail model is going to be
what the demand is for the retail and most of
that are these big, big stores, chain stores that already
exist out in South Ridge, and we have room to
(51:33):
grow out there. This can be something else.
Speaker 6 (51:35):
Any update here. Texter wants to know on the sports
complex that happened at the mall.
Speaker 4 (51:39):
So sports complex is tied directly to what's going on
at the mall.
Speaker 13 (51:42):
So, I mean, I think that we're working through not
only some additional funding opportunities that we have, but also
what the future of the mall is going to and
the property is going to hold. There's really you know,
as we started to get closer to the you know,
the construction documents being put together, there's really not a
whole lot of reason to rush forward with a sports
center until we understand what the future of them all
property is going to hold. So that's a big part
(52:03):
of what's going to happen with the sports center because
could there be more property available for the sports center,
could there be other things that go around it. All
that's got to be considered along with putting together the
funding for it. But again, that was a lot of
you know, I said with the mayor has been at
the Municipal League and the business summit, and it's worked
out really well while she's been gone a lot, and
that's why I'm here today. It's worked out really well
(52:24):
because you get to talk to other mayors and other
legislators about economic growth and economic development and what the
future holds. We're really excited for this upcoming legislative session
and working with our legislators to really talk about the
future of West Virginia because I think now we've got
people on the same page.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
We're exciting about that.
Speaker 6 (52:39):
Matt's always pleasure to have on the show.
Speaker 9 (52:40):
We got to go. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it, Matt.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
I appreciate you. Budy all right, we'll be.
Speaker 9 (52:43):
Back with the show again later.
Speaker 6 (52:45):
I'll be back with Metro News midday coming up at
noon today on this show tomorrow former Charleston me or
Danny Jones and the reopening of this restaurant and war
On Festival.
Speaker 9 (52:52):
We'll see you later today. Till then, have fun and
love somebody.
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