Dr. Casey Sacks from BridgeValley, Dr. Steven Eshenaur, Republican Candidate for District 8, Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin and Mara Boggs of the Charleston Area Alliance on the Ascend WV Announcement, and Former Charleston Mayor Danny Jones.
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Big announcement made Friday over at Capital Market and anytime
you can get the presidents of WVU and Marshall together
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us the Kanawh County Commission, plus the City of Charleston
plus the Charleston Airy Alliance. You know it's got to
be a big deal. We're going to talk about that
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Mara Boggs from the Charleston Ery Alliance. They'll both join
us in studio talk about as send West Virginia's venture
into the capital city. Gonna get a visit from former
Charleston Mayor Danny Jones a little bit later on. I'm
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wants to be in office this time next year. Well,
actually I guess this time next year he would be
campaigning to the gentleman's name is doctor Stephen Eschenauer and
he's running for state Senate. We'll get to know him. Plus,
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three five five zero zero eight. Well to Welcome to
the show now our good friend sponsor of the show,
doctor Casey Sachs of Bridge Valley. Good morning, good doctor,
and welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Good morning, Gabe. Great to be with you today.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I got two doctors on the show today. I got you,
and then I've got a doctor who uh is running
for state summit. So I got two doctors.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
You must be moving up in the world.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I guess I get something something like that. I know
doctor Sachs in my neighborhood. The talk has all been
about fiber, and I'll have more on that at another time.
I want to talk about the training programs. Allow you
to explain this that the training programs at Bridge Valley
offers for those that want to enter the world of
fiber optics.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
So that's a great question. We actually have the only
what's called a busy certified training facility. It's the only
one in West Virginia, and it does exactly what you said.
It helps people really be able to better install all
kinds of information and communications technology things like fiber.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
And there's a lot of talk about this. As I said,
it's kind of big in my area in Putnam County
right now because it's kind of complicated. But the Putnam
County Commission, you know, got some grants and so on
and so forth to put fiber. We're just trying to
trying to keep people, that's right.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
It's actually it's challenging for our employers in the area
to find people who are certified, who come in and
already know what they're doing. And it turns out a
busy certification is pretty fast. It's two intensive, five day courses,
so after ten full days you can sit for and
earn the certification.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Now, obviously it's going to vary depending on what people
to go through this program, doctor Sachs, depend on where
they go and exactly what kind of job. We talk
in decent money with these jobs, yeah, yeah, they are.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
And I think that's one of the great things about
Bridge Value is we try really hard to make sure
the certifications that we train people for lead to what
we call family sustaining wage jobs. We want people to
actually get a job where they can pay their rent
and pay for their childcare and get groceries and still
have some left over. And so instead of being paycheck
to paycheck, we try very intentionally to train people for
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jobs that really exist in the community that you could
feed your family on.
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Talking to again with doctor Cansey Sacksonbridge Valley, the day
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Isn't one night this week Dirty Birds? I mean, I'm sorry,
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Bridge Valley night over at the over at Gomart Ballpark.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Oh my gosh, you asked me something. I don't remember
what the day is.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yes, well, I will go back through my notes and
I'll figure out what day it is, because I've got
I've got notes for all everything going on with the
Dirty Birds. So I'll get that on a little bit
later on. But yeah, it is going to be uh
Bridge Valley night over at the ballpark. What do you
guys have planned to over there?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
It's Wednesday, it's windy Wednesday, Wednesday, okay, And it's always fun.
We always do a reception for students. We make sure
that students can get free tickets, and we want people
to bring families. We try really hard to have things
be family friendly events, and the Dirty Birds really fits
the bill.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, indeed, and it's always a lot of fun over
the ballpark. Of course, the Dirty Birds have been on
the road it seems like forever, and they regular season
starting to close out. They're going to open up a
series tomorrow night at home that'll take the folks all
the way through the weekend before they close out the
regular season next year. It's just a good opportunity for
you folks at Bridge Valley to get out and just
talk to people at the ballpark and in the community,
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and plus something good for your students as well.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
It really is. We've been going for years sponsoring one
of the nice at the ballpark, and we always make
sure it's right after back to school, so it's an
early event that students can go to and bring their
families and just have a nice time.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And you got a blood drive going on up at Bridge.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Valley, right, Oh yeah, come give blood. I always think
that the folks who work for bond Fees are vampires.
They are wonderful. They are doing such a great service
for our community. September fifteenth, anyone can come. We set
it up on campus over in Building two thousand on
purpose because as many of your longtime listeners know that
our students are eligible for a financial aid program called
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West Virginia Invests and you qualify for that program by
doing some community service, and it turns out giving blood
counts for a couple of hours of community service. So
we try and make it easy and.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Go wrong there. You got a golf tournament coming up
later this month we do.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
If you're not signed up yet, please sign up September
twenty ninth. It should be a really good time. We're
up at Edgewood this year and it looks like we're
fixing to sell out, so we're pretty excited about it.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, well, it's to be a great time, you know.
I mean, golfers love this sort of thing. And let's
be honest with you with ourselves. You know, we only
have a couple of weeks left in summer. Meteorological fall
is already here, so I'm not going to have a
whole lot of more times for golfers to be able
to get out and play golf. So if you'd like
to help out, I guess they just go to the
website if they'd like to put together a team.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
That's right, Bridge Valley dot edu.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
All right, and we talk a lot about the fame
program that you have there, and I understand you were
telling me about this. You've got a special student taking
part in the program that you're very proud of. It's
a young lady by the name of Kaylee Taylor. Tell
us Kaylee's story.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Well, we're proud of all of our studiures, but I
was bragging about Kaylee with you earlier because she's in
the same program. So it means she comes to Bridge
Valley a couple of days a week for her classes,
she goes to work at Toyota three days a week
for a full time job, and she's just really getting
that hands on experience. She said something like, I just
love that I get to apply what I'm learning at work.
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It's not just theory, it's what we're actually doing at work.
And I think it was such a great capture of
that theme program that you really are earning a paycheck
and advancing your skills at the same time.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And again, we have you on a couple times a month,
and you've talked a lot about the FAME program, but
if people are tendering in for the first time, explain
what the FAME program is.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
A Bridge Valley so same is the Federation for Advanced
Manufacturing Education. It's a group of local manufacturers that have
gotten together that have said they really have workforce needs,
and so they have agreed on the classes that you
need to take Bridge Valley, and they hire students at
the beginning of their experience and then keep students in
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school and pay them while they're going to school so
that they can earn a degree and have a job.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Doctor k cy Sachs of Bridge Valley, it's always a
pleasure to talk to you. Give the folks to the
website again.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
If you would, it's Bridge Valley dot edu.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
All right, we'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot, Thanks Jeeve,
Doctor kcy Sachs, Bridge Valley. It's nine to sixteen to
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is a program that's designed to get people to want
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to move here, and there are definitely economic incentives for
people to move to Charles. We've already seen this in
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name a few. We're going to talk to Charleston maryor
Amy Schuler good one about that coming up a little
bit later on. A Timara Boggs will be here as
well from the Charleston Area Alliance. This was a group announcement,
I mean City of Charleston, Knawk County Commission. The presidents
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of Marshall and WVU are also involved. So we'll talk
to those folks about that a little bit later on
with Danny Jones is going to stop, but I want
to get a check in with Danny and see how
the reopening of his restaurant on Courier Street. It's now open.
I picked up food from there myself and took it
home on Friday night. Great stuff as always, So we'll
talk to Danny about that. Plus we're gonna introduce you
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I see where Trump wants to change the Second Amendment
to confiscate law abiding citizens' guns. I'm outraged. We're the
NRA and the gun owners. We'll get into that at
a future time. If we can. Want to introduce you
now to a gentleman who's gonna be running for state
Senate next year as doctor Stephen Ashnouer. How you doing,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 12 (13:34):
Good good morning, Dave, and doing well this morning?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And what is the district again? What's the number? The
eighth district, the eighth district, and tell us about that district.
So the eighth district is it's a fairly large district.
It includes Roan Clay, southern part of Jackson, northern part
of Putnam, and uh, pretty much the city side here
of Charleston. Okay, all right, so go ahead and get
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the elephant out the room here. You're a doctor. What
kind of doctor are you?
Speaker 12 (14:01):
So? Primarily practice emergency medicine, but I'm also highly involved
in public health, running the health department here at the
Kenal Charleston Health Department.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I was going to say, for those of you that
are I mean people have probably heard your name in
the news for good reasons. I mean, tell us about
your work there.
Speaker 12 (14:17):
So public health is obviously it's a big issue because
it's about all of us. As I tell people frequently,
health is human. It's about every single one of us,
protecting us from diseases, trying to keep food safe in
our communities, and of course about education on what we
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can do to protect ourselves should there be a pandemic,
which we all definitely don't want to again, but also
about childhood diseases as well.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
So why would a doctor and somebody with your experience,
why would you also want to take this on to
be a state senator?
Speaker 12 (14:55):
I think it's very important that we have a broad
breadth of different individuals with skill sets within our legislature. Currently,
we have one physician in the Senate, doctor Tom Takubo,
and he's done a tremendous job there, but to have
more voices that bring a similar background. Not only am
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I an er physician where you see the full breadth
of our community, from the richest, the poorest, to the
youngest to the oldest. You truly see the entire community,
but we also have the opportunity within public health to
see what is affecting our community. As you know, West
Virginia is a it's not one of the healthiest states,
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and we really really would like to see us move
in a direction towards a healthier state and a safer state.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
What's some of the things that if you are elected,
with being that you have this background as a physician,
what were some of the things that you would like
to see implemented.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
Believe it or not, The first thing at the top
of my list is economics here in West Virginia. As
you know, we've lost a lot of jobs. I'm also
a small business owner own trophy whitetail hunts on the
Cannel Jackson county line, and it's very difficult when we've
seen so many people have to leave the state for
economic reasons. So actually that's probably at the top of
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my list. And of course you can't talk about economy
without education. I had the opportunity to do a lot
of education. Didn't necessarily want to, but I had to
go through it anyway. Bachelor's, doctorate, NBA, All of that
education comes with time and experience. Having an educated workforce
is very important to me. My children all went to
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public school here in West Virginia. Very proud of that
we have a good public school system. They need our support,
our support from the community to continue to improve the
offerings that we have. And then, of course there is
the health. That's one of the gorillas in the room
as well, being a state that struggles with obesity, heart disease,
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I cancer rates, addressing those issues as well. There's so
many diverse elements from both my career and the needs
of our community that I feel that I can bring
some real world experience to talk to.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
You know, doctor Stephen Ashnauer, who is a Republican candidate
for state center. You talked about the health in West Virginia,
but you also said the top of your list was
the economy. And it's always been my belief, and you
can weigh in on this that you'd be surprised what
can happen in the health of our state, or any
state for that matter, if you have a good economy,
because a lot of these things, a lot of these
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issues with health simply put go back to a lack
of opportunities through jobs and education and things that you'd
be surprised. It's not to mean people can be unhealthy,
you know, at any age or any walk of life,
but a lot of it does tie back to the economy.
Speaker 12 (17:53):
Absolutely, you hit the nail on the head. Economy plays
a tremendous role in what we call social determinants of health.
If you have the ability to pay to go to
a dentist, then you're more likely to get dental care
versus getting to the point that you have dental carries, toothaches,
end up in the er, having to have teeth removed
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at a young age. And that's tragic to see someone
lose their teeth by the age of thirty because they
didn't have the means to even go to a dentist.
That's just one simple example. But it's a common example
here in West Virginia. I think of the economy as
a tide. It's the tide that comes in and raises
all ships, including the health ship education. Obviously, if we
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have more funds that we can put into education through
a stronger economy, that is going to help our educational
system and also provide additional educational opportunities for our kids.
It's not just about going to college. It's also about
growing our trades and other non college skills that are
essential for employers.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Can we talk to you talking with doctor Stephen Seshnauer,
who is a Republican camp for State Centate. A Dave
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mentioned that your kids went through public school. There's been
a I guess over the last couple of years that
right or wrong, there's been a perception that some of
the folks under the doll maybe don't some don't value
public education. Now I'm not saying all and I'm just
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saying what other people have said. You're a big believer
in public education.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Though I am.
Speaker 12 (19:41):
I think that it's good to have additional opportunities because
competition can be good. But for most West Virginians, looking
at how rural we are, it's essential that we have
a strong public school system. It would be very difficult
for say a private school to open in Calhoun County
or Work County, where it's very rural, very difficult for
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people to get their kids to school. So having a
choice to go to a private school might be good
in Charleston and available, but we don't need to make
that at the expense of our public school system.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Got you, of course, we know that you're a doctor,
so I want to want to learn more about you
the person, though away from the white coat you know,
and away from what you hope to achieve in the legislature.
Give us a little byo on you personally.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
So I enlisted in the army at the ripe age
of eighteen and stayed for thirty years. I really enjoyed
my experience in the military because it taught me a
lot of things about life, life lessons that are hard.
Went to war four times, deployed three to Iraq and
thank you for your service, by the way, thank you much,
and once to Afghanistan. And during those those deployments seeing
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what the world geopoliticals stages was I think very instrumental
in my education experience. In running a small business here
in West Virginia, we opened Trophy Whitetail Hunts a few
years ago and continue to attract people that many of
our customers have never even been to the state of
West Virginia one time, and it's an opportunity to help
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spotlight and showcase our state and how beautiful it is
and how great our people are. The grit and resiliency
that we see in West Virginia is rare compared to
a lot of other areas I've been to. We can
be a very tenacious state, and I want to see
our outsiders that haven't been here and might have a
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misconception of the state come here and experience it.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
What do you see? What does West Virginia in your
opinion need to do to further market ourselves. And I'm
not talking about just necessarily tourism, and you know, Chelsea
Rubino folks do a great job with that. But I'm
talking about getting people to want to move here and
to stay here, or the people that go through our
school system to want to stay here, whether they're in
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the trades, whether they go into a four year institution, whatever.
What can we do to get people doctor to want
to stay here? I mentioned the as sen program. We're
going to talk to may or a good one in
Mara Boggs from the Charleston Area Alliance about that it's
coming to Charleston's already in Morgantown, it's already in eastern
Panhandle on Elkins in the Greenbrier Valley. What can we
do to get more of those people to want to stay.
Speaker 12 (22:33):
I went to the business meeting Ethic Greenberg a couple
of weeks ago, and I ask a number of business
owners what are your pain points? And in learning what
the pain points are of businesses that already exist here,
listening to the businesses that are providing the jobs an
opportunity in our economy to find out what it takes
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for them to grow and expand to attract other talent here.
We as a state need to be very supportive of
those businesses that are already in existence to grow and
attract people to West Virginia. I think that's one part
of the equation. The other part of the equation is
what is it that other businesses are looking for that
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are looking to expand that are not in West Virginia
To attract them here to the state to come and
see the state, and for us as a state to
help them build out the infrastructure where a mountainous state,
things like buildable land can be difficult, infrastructure can be difficult, gas, electric, water,
sewer to develop out sites to attract those businesses here
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and the people that they employ.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
What do you think West Virginia has going for it
in your opinion?
Speaker 12 (23:44):
Obviously, natural resources have always been a huge element for
us Cole Yeah, it's been on the decline, but gas
is definitely on the rise for West Virginia. I think
we have what's going forward as constant improving and favorable
tax structure that is attractive to business, and we need
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to continue to mold that tax structure to attract people
to West Virginia. We have gritty, resilient people that want
to stay here and are willing to work. Our wages
compared to many other states are lower, but so is
our cost of living. But West Virginia we have a
beauty and a community that's just hard to match in
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other states.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
The Democrats, of course, we're in control to West Virginia
for eighty three years. The Republicans have taken over. It's
been in a little over ten years now, and then
we have the super majority followed by the super super
majority copyright day val. So with that, though, can come,
just like with the Democrats, can come from fracturing. You know,
where you have this side, it may be way far right,
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this so far this side that may be more moderate.
As a Republican now the ruling party in West Virginia,
how do you balance those things? Because you go in,
you know, and you've got to be able to not
only work with the Democrats on things, but you also
got to be able to work with folks within your
own party. So how do you balance that?
Speaker 12 (25:07):
So my thought on it is this, fine, listen to
our constituency. What is our constituency telling us that we
need to be doing. Number One is the we need
to all be focused on the economy, and I think
everybody within both parties will agree on that. Piece two
is focusing on education within our state. I think almost
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everybody in the state can agree on that piece of it,
and of course agreeing on infrastructure. If we stay focused
on what matters to the constituency, we won't get off
track arguing over elements that don't move the needle of
West Virginia. And I think it's dangerous to get into
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the weeds of being bogged down with issues that don't
move the state forward. So it's focus, focus, focus, focus
on what our constituents are telling us.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Talk about your campaign strategy. I know it's early, you
just announced, you know that you're gonna be running. So
are you a door knocking kind of guy? What are
you gonna What are you gonna do?
Speaker 12 (26:13):
So if you look at the map of the eighth district,
the majority of it is very rural. So I've already
been out to county fairs and have several parades on tap.
But what I've learned is that you you do have
to get out in the community because the majority of
my voters in the Republican Party are in these rural
counties where I have lived for the last twenty five years.
(26:37):
That includes talking with going to like the cattle auction
I was there day before yesterday, to where from Jackson
County and Jackson County, going out to where the farmers
are coming to and listening to them. What are your struggles.
And it's a it's a difficult district because it is
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so spread out and you only have one real concentration
population here in Charleston, and the rest of it is
pretty rural. So my focus is going to be on
the rural counties because that's the majority of the Republican voters.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
You have a website, social media, you want to direct
people to.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
I sure do, Sure do.
Speaker 12 (27:17):
So We've got the website launched and it's doc E
for West virgin for WV dot com, doc FORWV dot com.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Okay, all right, well I'll be sure and chain in
your course, run social media and all the other things.
Speaker 12 (27:29):
Or you will, yes, yes, getting all that wound up
ready for the campaign.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
All right, we do a thing we call the final thirty.
Whenever I have a Candida, don I give you thirty
seconds uninterrupted by me, not necessarily timed to tell me
why should people vote for you?
Speaker 12 (27:44):
So, fellow West Virginians. I've been serving our state and
our country since i was eighteen years old. We desperately
need servant leaders in both the Senate, the House, and
the executive branch. And what I mean by servant leadership
are individuals that are proven and have experience of putting
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but for our constituency, for our fellow citizens, for our mountaineers.
We need to serve West Virginia in the legislature. We
don't need to serve ourselves. We need to listen to
our constituency and we need to take care of our constituency.
(28:26):
I've been taking care of West Virginians since I first
went to war as a physician, and continue in our
emergency departments today and in public health, and wish to
continue to serve you, our fellow West Virginians in the Senate.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Doctor Stephen Ashnauer, Republican in District eight, right, Republican State Senator,
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Speaker 4 (31:47):
Welcome back to the show. Twenty two minutes away from
ten o'clock Bike Announcement Friday over Capitol Market, Charleston, West Virginia.
About to enter the whole Ascend West Virginia World. Our
Bogs from Charleston Ery Alliance is here along with Charleston
Maror Amy Schuler. Goodman, A good one, good MANE. I
just changed your name. It's fine, it's Amy. I'll get
Maria right. Good morning, welcome to the show.
Speaker 16 (32:09):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
So let's explain what the program is to people.
Speaker 16 (32:14):
Okay, good morning. It's great to be here with Mayor
Goodwin of you, Dave. The Ascend program is just one piece,
but a very important piece of an economic development strategy,
and it addresses our most pressing issue, which is population loss.
So this program will bring new West Virginians to the
Charles scenario. We're so excited about it.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
And Mayor talk about from the city because, as I
mentioned earlier, I mean we had university presidents, Kenawh County Commission.
I mean, you don't do a program like this in
any of the years without a buy in from everybody.
Talk about the city's involvement in this, yeah.
Speaker 17 (32:46):
I will, But let me go all the way back,
because you want to talk about buy in. The buy
in and truly it was the belief that Brad and
Elie Smith had in West Virginia and Appalachian and Appalachians.
I mean they sunk twenty five million dollars in to
start this program initially, and you know their vision and
their dream is to make sure it's not just about jobs.
(33:07):
It's the reason why I love the Ascend program. It's
about your life because you and I both know that
a job is fulfilling. My job is fulfilling it it
gobbles up a lot of my life. But also there
are other aspects. And so when you join the Ascend program,
it is about relocating to the Mountain State, but it's
also connecting you to the spaces and places that you'll live,
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work and play. And so initially it was started cities
that were now the sixth It's I haven't written down,
but hopefully I can remember them off the top of
my head. It's Morgantown at Shepherdstown, It's Greenbrier Valley, it
is New River Gorge and Charleston and we're so delighted
to be part of this sixty five thousand. By the way,
people want to move here. People want to move here.
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We started a roots program with the Charleston Aarrey Alliance
years ago when the Smith Foundation said, you know, hang on,
we're We've got initial cities picked and quite frankly, we
were a little jealous about all that they were doing.
But we know it works. This is a this is
a program and a project that works. You know, it's
twenty thousand dollars in incentives, it's twelve thousand dollars in cash.
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It makes a difference.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You know.
Speaker 17 (34:15):
When we started the Roots program, I had the opportunity
to interview one of the young women who applied, and
she was living on the other side of the country
and I said to her, so, she said, I want
to move to West Virginia. I've always wanted to move
you know, I have family there and I'd like to
move back. And I said, well, why haven't you? She said,
because I have to rent a U haul and I
have to pay rent, and then I have to pay
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a deposit. And those are expensive things. Oh yeah, there
were expensive things. And so moving folks to a place
that they want to be, having that financial incentive is important.
But the most important thing the Ascend program gives are
ascenders is which calls much I like that? Is that connection?
Is that connection? I'm a mayor, but I'm a mom first,
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and if my kid went to another city, I want
to want to make sure that they had deep roots
and connection. And that's what Brad and Aali Smith knew
would work. Connect them to their job, but connect them
to the outdoors and the things that make us wild
and wonderful.
Speaker 16 (35:12):
And they have a ninety seven percent retention rate in
this program that is unprecedented across the nation, really across anything.
Ninety seven percent of ascenders stay in West Virginia.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
So talk about the Okay, somebody's listened to this right now.
They're thinking, Okay, this sounds great. Put it into put
the wheels into motion, Marien, Mayor, how does it work?
Speaker 16 (35:31):
Okay, So there's the ascend website. Since Friday, we announced
this at one o'clock on Friday. Since Friday, there's been
one hundred applications to move to Charleston.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
West Virginia from all over the country.
Speaker 16 (35:45):
All over the country. And I don't have all the
analytics about like which states they're coming from. We'll get
that very soon.
Speaker 17 (35:50):
But since Friday, just late Friday, by the way, she
texted me late Friday and said it's up.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
That's right, because the announcement was made like midday, twelve,
one o'clock or whatever. It was over at Capital Market.
And so since Friday, and like the mayor said, we'll
just go ahead and say at posts three four o'clock
or whatever when it went up. We've had one hundred
people apply to move here.
Speaker 16 (36:11):
That's correct, and so what they now do is they apply.
The application process is not easy. It's pretty extensive. The
ASCEND program managed out a WVU doctor Danny Twilley, Mark
Gavin Will. They have an application process so these people
get interviewed and then the best of the best get
selected to move to West Virginia. So we'll probably see
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just realistically, I would say November or December our first
ascender moving here to try.
Speaker 17 (36:38):
Sixty five thousand applications since this launch, sixty five thousand
people said, you know what, that looks like a good
deal for me. One hundred and four countries. So we're
not just talking about across the United States. We're talking
about across the world. Because, as you and I both know, Dave,
technology is, you know, it's hard to keep up. There
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are so many remote workers. You can literally work anywhere
and live anywhere now, especially in the Mountain State. There
are mayors who had the ASCEND program long before I did.
Used to puff up their chest mar and just walk
around and say we're one of them, because it is
something to be proud of in something and a program
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to really puff your chest up about.
Speaker 16 (37:24):
And we can't afford not to do this because other
cities are. We're being left behind if we don't do this.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
All right, So I'm a person and I have gone
on your website and I have read the information, and
I decide I'm going to do this. What happens to me?
What take me through the program? After I've decided I
want to do this? What do I get? Take me
through the Just use an example.
Speaker 16 (37:45):
Sure, So, say you're moving from California and you get
in the application process. You apply the ASCEND program says
you look like you're a good candidate for this, so
you will have an interview and then you'll be notified
if you're selected or not. So, if you're selected, you
sign a contract stating what you will and won't do
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for the next two years. And then you move to
West Virginia. And then once you get to West Virginia
you get all these benefits. So you get a shared
working space which is in the Charlestonnaria Alliance headquarters. It's
not on our fourth floor. I invite you or anybody
to come see it.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 16 (38:23):
You get access to outdoor recreation opportunities both at events
that the ASCEND Program puts on, and then we'll have
a gear rental area, so if you want to go
stand up paddle board biking but you don't have one,
we'll have those available to you. And then the networking opportunities.
Not only that the Charleston Area Alliance, the City, the County,
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all our organizations put on, but the ASCEND Program will
also put on networking opportunities, so you really get in
here and get to know our community.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
And I think it's very important, Mayor, and you kind
of alluded to this. You know, a job is eight
hours a day, eight nine hours a day, whatever the
case may be. You got to the job alone is
not going when people are trying to make the decision
where to go, the job alone is not what's going
to bring them there, because there's going to be times
that they're not working. And when we see the people
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with this program, they tend to be younger people, people
younger than I am, a lot younger. And this generation
loves experiences. My generation love money. That's all we cared
about was the money.
Speaker 17 (39:28):
Okay, big car's big, big big cars, big.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Houses exactly what's over it is, I.
Speaker 17 (39:33):
Mean to your point. So your point it is my
kids want a life. The kids now who are graduating school,
they want a life, They want their career to be
a central party.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Probably be better off for it too, you know.
Speaker 17 (39:45):
I really do think so. And it is the secret
sauce is. You said it earlier on the radio. I
was listening to my way over. You said, gosh, you is.
You know, You've got w You've got Marshall, got the
state of West Virginia, you got the Charlestonnarry lines, You've
got the city, you got the county, You've boy, everybody's
into it. There's a reason. There is a reason why,
because it works. And this is you know, is there
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a silver bowler or anything. No, there is not. But
you know, I can't give credit enough to the Charlestonnary
Alliance for really pulling this together. It's by the way,
I've worked from home. Everybody listening has probably worked from home,
and especially during COVID, there were two people that worked
in the entire city Hall building, Matthew Sutton and myself
for a long period of time. You get lonely, by
(40:28):
the way, y'all, when you're doing remote work you do.
And so what the Charlestonnary Alliance did with Danny and
his team to envision a great co working space to
not only just log in to make some calls, to
maybe host a meeting, but also to connect with other folks,
because if I picked you up and dropped you into
a different city, you'd want to have that. Aaron Noon,
(40:49):
who is also here with us in the Charles from
the Charlesonary Allions. She's not on no a microphone, She's
standing in the corner. They do an up next Charlie
West Boy, that's a great entrance way point for some
of these ascenders who are coming in. How do I
get connected with what's happening or just you know, meet
somebody to go to the gym with, or somebody who
may have a different interest. It is about a job,
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but it is about creating a life and finding loves
in the Mountain State. That is the key and the
secret sauce to the Ascend program that Brad and Elie
Smith started.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
And again this is the fifth one in West Virginia.
They're in the New River Gorge area, Eastern Panhandle. Six
I'm sorry, six, I'm sorry.
Speaker 17 (41:29):
Math never mus Strong, Morgantown, Shepherdstown, Elkins, New River, Gorge,
Greenbrier Valley and now Charleston.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Now Charleston. And where can people get more information? Hit
hit up the website there.
Speaker 16 (41:37):
Mar www dot NWV dot com and then it'll be
up on our website very soon to Charlestonay Alliance dot org.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
All Right, Mara and mayor Goodwine. Appreciate you being here,
Thank you, thanks a lot. It is a nine to
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Texas man, you know what would be cool if there
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Teacher and service personnel owning homes and the communities they
served question mark. I guess we'll have to settle for
tourist tech workers getting the help. Danny Jones is here, hey,
doing man.
Speaker 11 (44:56):
Of listening to the show, and one phrase caught me.
The best of the best? Who decides it goes?
Speaker 4 (45:05):
And that's the question I should have asked Mara when
she was here. There was a board that that pixies.
Now how that board has picked I don't know. I'll
have Mara on the show or the mayor at some
point and we'll we'll decide that.
Speaker 11 (45:16):
I mean, I have lot, I have a lot of
friends in southern California.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
We'll get him here.
Speaker 11 (45:20):
Well, I's a lawyer. What if he wanted to move here?
He doesn't need an office or what would he be
able to have an office up there?
Speaker 4 (45:29):
Yeah, if he wants one. Yeah. I mean this is
all Brad and Elise Smith. I mean that they put
twenty five million dollars into this day. This is their baby,
this is this is not something that these communities did,
They're part of it. But this was Brad and the
least said we want people to come to West Virginia.
Here's twenty five million to make it happen.
Speaker 11 (45:46):
It's it's hard, it's hard to do. It's I mean,
I hope it works.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
That's what's worked everywhere else so far.
Speaker 11 (45:56):
I'm in. I'm all in.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
Texas sixty five. It's an interest to move here, question mark. Sorry,
but that raises a little red flag to me, especially
if a lot are for progressive states like California, Illinois,
or New York. A Sudy done before the twenty twenty
election showed how people moved to change the political demographics
from red to purple or blue. News flash, don't think
about moving here to conservative West Virginia and vote progressive
(46:19):
like you did when you're moving from what ruined your state.
Just one let me finish, Just know that West Virginians
will not put up with that, all right, Danny, go.
Speaker 11 (46:27):
It's not going to be an issue. If somebody left
Illinois to come in here, to move here, it'd be
to get away from the pension system which is so underwater.
This governor out there wants to run for president. You
ought to see how bad the finances are, not just
in Chicago, but in the entire state of Illinois. It's
the worst in the country.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
What do you make of now, the president rather the
meme that went out over the weekend referencing apocalypse now
when he says, you're because he wants to change the
Department of Defense to the Department of War, which is
what it was you know previously, I mean like a
long time ago Stintson. Uh yeah. So, so he says,
and I'm paraphrasing, Chicago is about to find out why
(47:11):
we are calling it the Department of War.
Speaker 11 (47:15):
Oh, I just think he's being silly.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Do you think you think that's it? It's not nothing
to be alarmed about, in my opinion. No. Somebody on
one of the Sunday morning talk shows pointed this out. Danny,
what if just say it? Give you for instance, So basically,
President Trump has said, uh, we're willing to go to
war uh for Chicago. And I'm very much paraphrasing. Okay,
what if President Obama would have said, we've got to
(47:43):
clean up pick a city, Nashville, and I am going
to send federal troops into Memphis or into Nashville. Can
you imagine what the what the response would have been
had President Obama said, I am going to send in
federal troops.
Speaker 11 (48:00):
Of Chicago is called Inglewood, and that's where the problem is.
And you don't need troops, you need more police officers.
So if they wanted, if President Trump wanted to help,
he could send more. He could ask congres for a
supplement to hire more police to help in the area
(48:22):
called Inglewood, because that's where the problem is. Where I
go in Chicago, near the near the train station, walking
around up on State Street. There's no problem in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
Yeah, my wife is frequent in Chicago for her job.
And you know, again, it's it's it's it's just those
certain it's certain areas.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (48:39):
But if and if he's got them doing in in
Chicago what they were in d C, they're going to
be picking up litter because that's pretty much what they've
done in d C. That's different, and that's not meant
to be disrespectful to the guard by any many stretches
in the foination.
Speaker 11 (48:53):
But that's not what their mission is in my opinion,
I don't think their mission of course it held. Then
DC is a federal en.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
Clay a little bit different.
Speaker 11 (49:04):
Yeah, yeah, it is different, and it's the lady said that.
The mayor said it helped, but they don't want ice.
She qualified it by saying, we don't want ice. Well
you don't. You don't get to choose. Uh.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
Tex says, was Danny aware of Trump's finances before Trump
was elected the second time? Terrible finances haven't stopped him yet.
Speaker 11 (49:25):
I don't know anything about his finances except he made
a lot of money on bitcoin.
Speaker 4 (49:30):
Tex says, Dave, the President of the United States is
anything but silly, stupid, arrogant, deranged, racist, misogynistic, criminal, pathetic
and said, but not silly.
Speaker 11 (49:38):
He's silly.
Speaker 12 (49:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (49:41):
Why does Danny go out uh go out of his
way to excuse obvious and clear threats of unlawful and
authoritarian action by a sex abuser.
Speaker 11 (49:51):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (49:53):
I'm lost.
Speaker 11 (49:53):
I'm lost on that one.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
All right, so you opened up the restaurant again on Thursday.
Speaker 11 (49:59):
House It's okay, it's it's uh, you know, it's it's hard.
It's a barbecue stand. It's a place where people walk in,
they walk up, and they get waited on. And I'm
working there, but I'm not the one doing it. And
I worked there all morning this morning, and today we
(50:20):
were going to move from chicken and potato salad. So
we've got this. The half chicken is usually eleven ninety five.
We're going to sell it for six ninety five. You
get half chicken and a potato salad and another side
dish if you want to.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
All right, what's your favorite of your side dishes? I
know it's like picking your favorite kid, but what's your
what's your favorite side dish?
Speaker 11 (50:41):
Baked beans?
Speaker 4 (50:42):
Baked beans? Side See, I'm a big I like it all.
But I'm a big fan of your potato salad. I
love the smokeing.
Speaker 11 (50:47):
I just made a whole bunch of it good. I
just made it. I went over there this morning and
made up. I cooked the potatoes yesterday, cook forty potatoes,
put them in the refrigerator, skin them, diced them, and
then made and they were smoked, but they were cold,
So you can't you can't make mashed potato.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
Salads, right, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 17 (51:11):
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Speaker 4 (51:11):
We had a text to the show on I guess
it would have been on Friday that somebody went in
on Thursday. Actually it was Thursday to the network show
that they had gone in Thursday and got the ribs
or something. Somebody sent me a picture on the tax line.
Here looked as good as always.
Speaker 20 (51:26):
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Speaker 4 (51:26):
I mentioned earlier that my I picked up some of
the barbecue and some side dishes and took it home.
Even threw in a couple of salads for me Friday night.
We're great stuff.
Speaker 11 (51:36):
We're getting out of the salad, that's what.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
Well, you told me that before. But then so that's.
Speaker 11 (51:40):
Where you get it. We can't move salads. We can't
move them, so we just took them off.
Speaker 4 (51:44):
The So you just wanted me to take them, basically,
is what you're saying you want. That's kind of what.
Speaker 11 (51:50):
We didn't really care what took them.
Speaker 4 (51:52):
Just even next sucker that comes in gets the salads.
All right, So you got to give me the chicken
special again.
Speaker 11 (51:57):
Today it's half a chicken and potato sow and then
you get another. You give me the Cole Slower baked beans.
We it's it's it's six ninety five, which is five
dollars off.
Speaker 4 (52:10):
All right, Well, sounds like a pretty pretty delicious lunch
for people that are thinking the weather's going to beautiful
this week. Head on over to Couriers, it goes to
place to eat.
Speaker 11 (52:18):
It's on Courtiers Street.
Speaker 4 (52:20):
Danny Jones, always a pleasure to have you here. Thank you,
thanks a lot. Coming up later today Metro News Midday
thirteen News and Tonight Live anchor Amanda Baron and me
from noon to three on this show tomorrow, we're gonna
talk to the folks from the Westside Neighborhood Association and
uh more, we're going to talk about chili and Saint
Albans coming up on the show tomorrow as well, TJ
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plus the Charleston Airy Alliance. You know it's got to
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the show now our good friend sponsor of the show,
doctor Casey Sachs of Bridge Valley. Good morning, good doctor,
and welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Good morning, Gabe. Great to be with you today.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I got two doctors on the show today. I got you,
and then I've got a doctor who uh is running
for state summit. So I got two doctors.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
You must be moving up in the world.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I guess I get something something like that. I know
doctor Sachs in my neighborhood. The talk has all been
about fiber, and I'll have more on that at another time.
I want to talk about the training programs. Allow you
to explain this that the training programs at Bridge Valley
offers for those that want to enter the world of
fiber optics.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
So that's a great question. We actually have the only
what's called a busy certified training facility. It's the only
one in West Virginia, and it does exactly what you said.
It helps people really be able to better install all
kinds of information and communications technology things like fiber.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
And there's a lot of talk about this. As I said,
it's kind of big in my area in Putnam County
right now because it's kind of complicated. But the Putnam
County Commission, you know, got some grants and so on
and so forth to put fiber. We're just trying to
trying to keep people, that's right.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
It's actually it's challenging for our employers in the area
to find people who are certified, who come in and
already know what they're doing. And it turns out a
busy certification is pretty fast. It's two intensive, five day courses,
so after ten full days you can sit for and
earn the certification.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Now, obviously it's going to vary depending on what people
to go through this program, doctor Sachs, depend on where
they go and exactly what kind of job. We talk
in decent money with these jobs, yeah, yeah, they are.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
And I think that's one of the great things about
Bridge Value is we try really hard to make sure
the certifications that we train people for lead to what
we call family sustaining wage jobs. We want people to
actually get a job where they can pay their rent
and pay for their childcare and get groceries and still
have some left over. And so instead of being paycheck
to paycheck, we try very intentionally to train people for
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jobs that really exist in the community that you could
feed your family on.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
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Isn't one night this week Dirty Birds? I mean, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 6 (05:24):
Oh my gosh, you asked me something. I don't remember
what the day is.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yes, well, I will go back through my notes and
I'll figure out what day it is, because I've got
I've got notes for all everything going on with the
Dirty Birds. So I'll get that on a little bit
later on. But yeah, it is going to be uh
Bridge Valley night over at the ballpark. What do you
guys have planned to over there?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
It's Wednesday, it's windy Wednesday, Wednesday, okay, And it's always fun.
We always do a reception for students. We make sure
that students can get free tickets, and we want people
to bring families. We try really hard to have things
be family friendly events, and the Dirty Birds really fits
the bill.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, indeed, and it's always a lot of fun over
the ballpark. Of course, the Dirty Birds have been on
the road it seems like forever, and they regular season
starting to close out. They're going to open up a
series tomorrow night at home that'll take the folks all
the way through the weekend before they close out the
regular season next year. It's just a good opportunity for
you folks at Bridge Valley to get out and just
talk to people at the ballpark and in the community,
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and plus something good for your students as well.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
It really is. We've been going for years sponsoring one
of the nice at the ballpark, and we always make
sure it's right after back to school, so it's an
early event that students can go to and bring their
families and just have a nice time.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And you got a blood drive going on up at Bridge.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Valley, right, Oh yeah, come give blood. I always think
that the folks who work for bond Fees are vampires.
They are wonderful. They are doing such a great service
for our community. September fifteenth, anyone can come. We set
it up on campus over in Building two thousand on
purpose because as many of your longtime listeners know that
our students are eligible for a financial aid program called
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West Virginia Invests and you qualify for that program by
doing some community service, and it turns out giving blood
counts for a couple of hours of community service. So
we try and make it easy and.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Go wrong there. You got a golf tournament coming up
later this month we do.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
If you're not signed up yet, please sign up September
twenty ninth. It should be a really good time. We're
up at Edgewood this year and it looks like we're
fixing to sell out, so we're pretty excited about it.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, well, it's to be a great time, you know.
I mean, golfers love this sort of thing. And let's
be honest with you with ourselves. You know, we only
have a couple of weeks left in summer. Meteorological fall
is already here, so I'm not going to have a
whole lot of more times for golfers to be able
to get out and play golf. So if you'd like
to help out, I guess they just go to the
website if they'd like to put together a team.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
That's right, Bridge Valley dot edu.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
All right, and we talk a lot about the fame
program that you have there, and I understand you were
telling me about this. You've got a special student taking
part in the program that you're very proud of. It's
a young lady by the name of Kaylee Taylor. Tell
us Kaylee's story.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Well, we're proud of all of our studiures, but I
was bragging about Kaylee with you earlier because she's in
the same program. So it means she comes to Bridge
Valley a couple of days a week for her classes,
she goes to work at Toyota three days a week
for a full time job, and she's just really getting
that hands on experience. She said something like, I just
love that I get to apply what I'm learning at work.
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It's not just theory, it's what we're actually doing at work.
And I think it was such a great capture of
that theme program that you really are earning a paycheck
and advancing your skills at the same time.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And again, we have you on a couple times a month,
and you've talked a lot about the FAME program, but
if people are tendering in for the first time, explain
what the FAME program is.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
A Bridge Valley so same is the Federation for Advanced
Manufacturing Education. It's a group of local manufacturers that have
gotten together that have said they really have workforce needs,
and so they have agreed on the classes that you
need to take Bridge Valley, and they hire students at
the beginning of their experience and then keep students in
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school and pay them while they're going to school so
that they can earn a degree and have a job.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Doctor k cy Sachs of Bridge Valley, it's always a
pleasure to talk to you. Give the folks to the
website again.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
If you would, it's Bridge Valley dot edu.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
All right, we'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot, Thanks Jeeve,
Doctor kcy Sachs, Bridge Valley. It's nine to sixteen to
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I picked up food from there myself and took it
home on Friday night. Great stuff as always, So we'll
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Ryan Nicholson in charge of things this morning. Big Ley, Pigley,
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Good one tomorrow. Boggs from the Charleston Airy Alliance coming
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I see where Trump wants to change the Second Amendment
to confiscate law abiding citizens' guns. I'm outraged. We're the
NRA and the gun owners. We'll get into that at
a future time. If we can. Want to introduce you
now to a gentleman who's gonna be running for state
Senate next year as doctor Stephen Ashnouer. How you doing,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 12 (13:34):
Good good morning, Dave, and doing well this morning?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And what is the district again? What's the number? The
eighth district, the eighth district, and tell us about that district.
So the eighth district is it's a fairly large district.
It includes Roan Clay, southern part of Jackson, northern part
of Putnam, and uh, pretty much the city side here
of Charleston. Okay, all right, so go ahead and get
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the elephant out the room here. You're a doctor. What
kind of doctor are you?
Speaker 12 (14:01):
So? Primarily practice emergency medicine, but I'm also highly involved
in public health, running the health department here at the
Kenal Charleston Health Department.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I was going to say, for those of you that
are I mean people have probably heard your name in
the news for good reasons. I mean, tell us about
your work there.
Speaker 12 (14:17):
So public health is obviously it's a big issue because
it's about all of us. As I tell people frequently,
health is human. It's about every single one of us,
protecting us from diseases, trying to keep food safe in
our communities, and of course about education on what we
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can do to protect ourselves should there be a pandemic,
which we all definitely don't want to again, but also
about childhood diseases as well.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
So why would a doctor and somebody with your experience,
why would you also want to take this on to
be a state senator?
Speaker 12 (14:55):
I think it's very important that we have a broad
breadth of different individuals with skill sets within our legislature. Currently,
we have one physician in the Senate, doctor Tom Takubo,
and he's done a tremendous job there, but to have
more voices that bring a similar background. Not only am
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I an er physician where you see the full breadth
of our community, from the richest, the poorest, to the
youngest to the oldest. You truly see the entire community,
but we also have the opportunity within public health to
see what is affecting our community. As you know, West
Virginia is a it's not one of the healthiest states,
(15:38):
and we really really would like to see us move
in a direction towards a healthier state and a safer state.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
What's some of the things that if you are elected,
with being that you have this background as a physician,
what were some of the things that you would like
to see implemented.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
Believe it or not, The first thing at the top
of my list is economics here in West Virginia. As
you know, we've lost a lot of jobs. I'm also
a small business owner own trophy whitetail hunts on the
Cannel Jackson county line, and it's very difficult when we've
seen so many people have to leave the state for
economic reasons. So actually that's probably at the top of
(16:17):
my list. And of course you can't talk about economy
without education. I had the opportunity to do a lot
of education. Didn't necessarily want to, but I had to
go through it anyway. Bachelor's, doctorate, NBA, All of that
education comes with time and experience. Having an educated workforce
is very important to me. My children all went to
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public school here in West Virginia. Very proud of that
we have a good public school system. They need our support,
our support from the community to continue to improve the
offerings that we have. And then, of course there is
the health. That's one of the gorillas in the room
as well, being a state that struggles with obesity, heart disease,
(17:00):
I cancer rates, addressing those issues as well. There's so
many diverse elements from both my career and the needs
of our community that I feel that I can bring
some real world experience to talk to.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
You know, doctor Stephen Ashnauer, who is a Republican candidate
for state center. You talked about the health in West Virginia,
but you also said the top of your list was
the economy. And it's always been my belief, and you
can weigh in on this that you'd be surprised what
can happen in the health of our state, or any
state for that matter, if you have a good economy,
because a lot of these things, a lot of these
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issues with health simply put go back to a lack
of opportunities through jobs and education and things that you'd
be surprised. It's not to mean people can be unhealthy,
you know, at any age or any walk of life,
but a lot of it does tie back to the economy.
Speaker 12 (17:53):
Absolutely, you hit the nail on the head. Economy plays
a tremendous role in what we call social determinants of health.
If you have the ability to pay to go to
a dentist, then you're more likely to get dental care
versus getting to the point that you have dental carries, toothaches,
end up in the er, having to have teeth removed
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at a young age. And that's tragic to see someone
lose their teeth by the age of thirty because they
didn't have the means to even go to a dentist.
That's just one simple example. But it's a common example
here in West Virginia. I think of the economy as
a tide. It's the tide that comes in and raises
all ships, including the health ship education. Obviously, if we
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have more funds that we can put into education through
a stronger economy, that is going to help our educational
system and also provide additional educational opportunities for our kids.
It's not just about going to college. It's also about
growing our trades and other non college skills that are
essential for employers.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Can we talk to you talking with doctor Stephen Seshnauer,
who is a Republican camp for State Centate. A Dave
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merchandise and more, visit dirty Birds baseball dot com. You
mentioned that your kids went through public school. There's been
a I guess over the last couple of years that
right or wrong, there's been a perception that some of
the folks under the doll maybe don't some don't value
public education. Now I'm not saying all and I'm just
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saying what other people have said. You're a big believer
in public education.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Though I am.
Speaker 12 (19:41):
I think that it's good to have additional opportunities because
competition can be good. But for most West Virginians, looking
at how rural we are, it's essential that we have
a strong public school system. It would be very difficult
for say a private school to open in Calhoun County
or Work County, where it's very rural, very difficult for
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people to get their kids to school. So having a
choice to go to a private school might be good
in Charleston and available, but we don't need to make
that at the expense of our public school system.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Got you, of course, we know that you're a doctor,
so I want to want to learn more about you
the person, though away from the white coat you know,
and away from what you hope to achieve in the legislature.
Give us a little byo on you personally.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
So I enlisted in the army at the ripe age
of eighteen and stayed for thirty years. I really enjoyed
my experience in the military because it taught me a
lot of things about life, life lessons that are hard.
Went to war four times, deployed three to Iraq and
thank you for your service, by the way, thank you much,
and once to Afghanistan. And during those those deployments seeing
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what the world geopoliticals stages was I think very instrumental
in my education experience. In running a small business here
in West Virginia, we opened Trophy Whitetail Hunts a few
years ago and continue to attract people that many of
our customers have never even been to the state of
West Virginia one time, and it's an opportunity to help
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spotlight and showcase our state and how beautiful it is
and how great our people are. The grit and resiliency
that we see in West Virginia is rare compared to
a lot of other areas I've been to. We can
be a very tenacious state, and I want to see
our outsiders that haven't been here and might have a
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misconception of the state come here and experience it.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
What do you see? What does West Virginia in your
opinion need to do to further market ourselves. And I'm
not talking about just necessarily tourism, and you know, Chelsea
Rubino folks do a great job with that. But I'm
talking about getting people to want to move here and
to stay here, or the people that go through our
school system to want to stay here, whether they're in
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the trades, whether they go into a four year institution, whatever.
What can we do to get people doctor to want
to stay here? I mentioned the as sen program. We're
going to talk to may or a good one in
Mara Boggs from the Charleston Area Alliance about that it's
coming to Charleston's already in Morgantown, it's already in eastern
Panhandle on Elkins in the Greenbrier Valley. What can we
do to get more of those people to want to stay.
Speaker 12 (22:33):
I went to the business meeting Ethic Greenberg a couple
of weeks ago, and I ask a number of business
owners what are your pain points? And in learning what
the pain points are of businesses that already exist here,
listening to the businesses that are providing the jobs an
opportunity in our economy to find out what it takes
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for them to grow and expand to attract other talent here.
We as a state need to be very supportive of
those businesses that are already in existence to grow and
attract people to West Virginia. I think that's one part
of the equation. The other part of the equation is
what is it that other businesses are looking for that
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are looking to expand that are not in West Virginia
To attract them here to the state to come and
see the state, and for us as a state to
help them build out the infrastructure where a mountainous state,
things like buildable land can be difficult, infrastructure can be difficult, gas, electric, water,
sewer to develop out sites to attract those businesses here
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and the people that they employ.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
What do you think West Virginia has going for it
in your opinion?
Speaker 12 (23:44):
Obviously, natural resources have always been a huge element for
us Cole Yeah, it's been on the decline, but gas
is definitely on the rise for West Virginia. I think
we have what's going forward as constant improving and favorable
tax structure that is attractive to business, and we need
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to continue to mold that tax structure to attract people
to West Virginia. We have gritty, resilient people that want
to stay here and are willing to work. Our wages
compared to many other states are lower, but so is
our cost of living. But West Virginia we have a
beauty and a community that's just hard to match in
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other states.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
The Democrats, of course, we're in control to West Virginia
for eighty three years. The Republicans have taken over. It's
been in a little over ten years now, and then
we have the super majority followed by the super super
majority copyright day val. So with that, though, can come,
just like with the Democrats, can come from fracturing. You know,
where you have this side, it may be way far right,
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this so far this side that may be more moderate.
As a Republican now the ruling party in West Virginia,
how do you balance those things? Because you go in,
you know, and you've got to be able to not
only work with the Democrats on things, but you also
got to be able to work with folks within your
own party. So how do you balance that?
Speaker 12 (25:07):
So my thought on it is this, fine, listen to
our constituency. What is our constituency telling us that we
need to be doing. Number One is the we need
to all be focused on the economy, and I think
everybody within both parties will agree on that. Piece two
is focusing on education within our state. I think almost
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everybody in the state can agree on that piece of it,
and of course agreeing on infrastructure. If we stay focused
on what matters to the constituency, we won't get off
track arguing over elements that don't move the needle of
West Virginia. And I think it's dangerous to get into
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the weeds of being bogged down with issues that don't
move the state forward. So it's focus, focus, focus, focus
on what our constituents are telling us.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Talk about your campaign strategy. I know it's early, you
just announced, you know that you're gonna be running. So
are you a door knocking kind of guy? What are
you gonna What are you gonna do?
Speaker 12 (26:13):
So if you look at the map of the eighth district,
the majority of it is very rural. So I've already
been out to county fairs and have several parades on tap.
But what I've learned is that you you do have
to get out in the community because the majority of
my voters in the Republican Party are in these rural
counties where I have lived for the last twenty five years.
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That includes talking with going to like the cattle auction
I was there day before yesterday, to where from Jackson
County and Jackson County, going out to where the farmers
are coming to and listening to them. What are your struggles.
And it's a it's a difficult district because it is
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so spread out and you only have one real concentration
population here in Charleston, and the rest of it is
pretty rural. So my focus is going to be on
the rural counties because that's the majority of the Republican voters.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
You have a website, social media, you want to direct
people to.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
I sure do, Sure do.
Speaker 12 (27:17):
So We've got the website launched and it's doc E
for West virgin for WV dot com, doc FORWV dot com.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Okay, all right, well I'll be sure and chain in
your course, run social media and all the other things.
Speaker 12 (27:29):
Or you will, yes, yes, getting all that wound up
ready for the campaign.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
All right, we do a thing we call the final thirty.
Whenever I have a Candida, don I give you thirty
seconds uninterrupted by me, not necessarily timed to tell me
why should people vote for you?
Speaker 12 (27:44):
So, fellow West Virginians. I've been serving our state and
our country since i was eighteen years old. We desperately
need servant leaders in both the Senate, the House, and
the executive branch. And what I mean by servant leadership
are individuals that are proven and have experience of putting
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skin in the game of serving our state, not for themselves,
but for our constituency, for our fellow citizens, for our mountaineers.
We need to serve West Virginia in the legislature. We
don't need to serve ourselves. We need to listen to
our constituency and we need to take care of our constituency.
(28:26):
I've been taking care of West Virginians since I first
went to war as a physician, and continue in our
emergency departments today and in public health, and wish to
continue to serve you, our fellow West Virginians in the Senate.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Doctor Stephen Ashnauer, Republican in District eight, right, Republican State Senator,
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Speaker 4 (31:47):
Welcome back to the show. Twenty two minutes away from
ten o'clock Bike Announcement Friday over Capitol Market, Charleston, West Virginia.
About to enter the whole Ascend West Virginia World. Our
Bogs from Charleston Ery Alliance is here along with Charleston
Maror Amy Schuler. Goodman, A good one, good MANE. I
just changed your name. It's fine, it's Amy. I'll get
Maria right. Good morning, welcome to the show.
Speaker 16 (32:09):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
So let's explain what the program is to people.
Speaker 16 (32:14):
Okay, good morning. It's great to be here with Mayor
Goodwin of you, Dave. The Ascend program is just one piece,
but a very important piece of an economic development strategy,
and it addresses our most pressing issue, which is population loss.
So this program will bring new West Virginians to the
Charles scenario. We're so excited about it.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
And Mayor talk about from the city because, as I
mentioned earlier, I mean we had university presidents, Kenawh County Commission.
I mean, you don't do a program like this in
any of the years without a buy in from everybody.
Talk about the city's involvement in this, yeah.
Speaker 17 (32:46):
I will, But let me go all the way back,
because you want to talk about buy in. The buy
in and truly it was the belief that Brad and
Elie Smith had in West Virginia and Appalachian and Appalachians.
I mean they sunk twenty five million dollars in to
start this program initially, and you know their vision and
their dream is to make sure it's not just about jobs.
(33:07):
It's the reason why I love the Ascend program. It's
about your life because you and I both know that
a job is fulfilling. My job is fulfilling it it
gobbles up a lot of my life. But also there
are other aspects. And so when you join the Ascend program,
it is about relocating to the Mountain State, but it's
also connecting you to the spaces and places that you'll live,
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work and play. And so initially it was started cities
that were now the sixth It's I haven't written down,
but hopefully I can remember them off the top of
my head. It's Morgantown at Shepherdstown, It's Greenbrier Valley, it
is New River Gorge and Charleston and we're so delighted
to be part of this sixty five thousand. By the way,
people want to move here. People want to move here.
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We started a roots program with the Charleston Aarrey Alliance
years ago when the Smith Foundation said, you know, hang on,
we're We've got initial cities picked and quite frankly, we
were a little jealous about all that they were doing.
But we know it works. This is a this is
a program and a project that works. You know, it's
twenty thousand dollars in incentives, it's twelve thousand dollars in cash.
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It makes a difference.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You know.
Speaker 17 (34:15):
When we started the Roots program, I had the opportunity
to interview one of the young women who applied, and
she was living on the other side of the country
and I said to her, so, she said, I want
to move to West Virginia. I've always wanted to move
you know, I have family there and I'd like to
move back. And I said, well, why haven't you? She said,
because I have to rent a U haul and I
have to pay rent, and then I have to pay
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a deposit. And those are expensive things. Oh yeah, there
were expensive things. And so moving folks to a place
that they want to be, having that financial incentive is important.
But the most important thing the Ascend program gives are
ascenders is which calls much I like that? Is that connection?
Is that connection? I'm a mayor, but I'm a mom first,
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and if my kid went to another city, I want
to want to make sure that they had deep roots
and connection. And that's what Brad and Aali Smith knew
would work. Connect them to their job, but connect them
to the outdoors and the things that make us wild
and wonderful.
Speaker 16 (35:12):
And they have a ninety seven percent retention rate in
this program that is unprecedented across the nation, really across anything.
Ninety seven percent of ascenders stay in West Virginia.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
So talk about the Okay, somebody's listened to this right now.
They're thinking, Okay, this sounds great. Put it into put
the wheels into motion, Marien, Mayor, how does it work?
Speaker 16 (35:31):
Okay, So there's the ascend website. Since Friday, we announced
this at one o'clock on Friday. Since Friday, there's been
one hundred applications to move to Charleston.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
West Virginia from all over the country.
Speaker 16 (35:45):
All over the country. And I don't have all the
analytics about like which states they're coming from. We'll get
that very soon.
Speaker 17 (35:50):
But since Friday, just late Friday, by the way, she
texted me late Friday and said it's up.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
That's right, because the announcement was made like midday, twelve,
one o'clock or whatever. It was over at Capital Market.
And so since Friday, and like the mayor said, we'll
just go ahead and say at posts three four o'clock
or whatever when it went up. We've had one hundred
people apply to move here.
Speaker 16 (36:11):
That's correct, and so what they now do is they apply.
The application process is not easy. It's pretty extensive. The
ASCEND program managed out a WVU doctor Danny Twilley, Mark
Gavin Will. They have an application process so these people
get interviewed and then the best of the best get
selected to move to West Virginia. So we'll probably see
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just realistically, I would say November or December our first
ascender moving here to try.
Speaker 17 (36:38):
Sixty five thousand applications since this launch, sixty five thousand
people said, you know what, that looks like a good
deal for me. One hundred and four countries. So we're
not just talking about across the United States. We're talking
about across the world. Because, as you and I both know, Dave,
technology is, you know, it's hard to keep up. There
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are so many remote workers. You can literally work anywhere
and live anywhere now, especially in the Mountain State. There
are mayors who had the ASCEND program long before I did.
Used to puff up their chest mar and just walk
around and say we're one of them, because it is
something to be proud of in something and a program
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to really puff your chest up about.
Speaker 16 (37:24):
And we can't afford not to do this because other
cities are. We're being left behind if we don't do this.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
All right, So I'm a person and I have gone
on your website and I have read the information, and
I decide I'm going to do this. What happens to me?
What take me through the program? After I've decided I
want to do this? What do I get? Take me
through the Just use an example.
Speaker 16 (37:45):
Sure, So, say you're moving from California and you get
in the application process. You apply the ASCEND program says
you look like you're a good candidate for this, so
you will have an interview and then you'll be notified
if you're selected or not. So, if you're selected, you
sign a contract stating what you will and won't do
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for the next two years. And then you move to
West Virginia. And then once you get to West Virginia
you get all these benefits. So you get a shared
working space which is in the Charlestonnaria Alliance headquarters. It's
not on our fourth floor. I invite you or anybody
to come see it.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 16 (38:23):
You get access to outdoor recreation opportunities both at events
that the ASCEND Program puts on, and then we'll have
a gear rental area, so if you want to go
stand up paddle board biking but you don't have one,
we'll have those available to you. And then the networking opportunities.
Not only that the Charleston Area Alliance, the City, the County,
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all our organizations put on, but the ASCEND Program will
also put on networking opportunities, so you really get in
here and get to know our community.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
And I think it's very important, Mayor, and you kind
of alluded to this. You know, a job is eight
hours a day, eight nine hours a day, whatever the
case may be. You got to the job alone is
not going when people are trying to make the decision
where to go, the job alone is not what's going
to bring them there, because there's going to be times
that they're not working. And when we see the people
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with this program, they tend to be younger people, people
younger than I am, a lot younger. And this generation
loves experiences. My generation love money. That's all we cared
about was the money.
Speaker 17 (39:28):
Okay, big car's big, big big cars, big.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Houses exactly what's over it is, I.
Speaker 17 (39:33):
Mean to your point. So your point it is my
kids want a life. The kids now who are graduating school,
they want a life, They want their career to be
a central party.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Probably be better off for it too, you know.
Speaker 17 (39:45):
I really do think so. And it is the secret
sauce is. You said it earlier on the radio. I
was listening to my way over. You said, gosh, you is.
You know, You've got w You've got Marshall, got the
state of West Virginia, you got the Charlestonnarry lines, You've
got the city, you got the county, You've boy, everybody's
into it. There's a reason. There is a reason why,
because it works. And this is you know, is there
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a silver bowler or anything. No, there is not. But
you know, I can't give credit enough to the Charlestonnary
Alliance for really pulling this together. It's by the way,
I've worked from home. Everybody listening has probably worked from home,
and especially during COVID, there were two people that worked
in the entire city Hall building, Matthew Sutton and myself
for a long period of time. You get lonely, by
(40:28):
the way, y'all, when you're doing remote work you do.
And so what the Charlestonnary Alliance did with Danny and
his team to envision a great co working space to
not only just log in to make some calls, to
maybe host a meeting, but also to connect with other folks,
because if I picked you up and dropped you into
a different city, you'd want to have that. Aaron Noon,
(40:49):
who is also here with us in the Charles from
the Charlesonary Allions. She's not on no a microphone, She's
standing in the corner. They do an up next Charlie
West Boy, that's a great entrance way point for some
of these ascenders who are coming in. How do I
get connected with what's happening or just you know, meet
somebody to go to the gym with, or somebody who
may have a different interest. It is about a job,
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but it is about creating a life and finding loves
in the Mountain State. That is the key and the
secret sauce to the Ascend program that Brad and Elie
Smith started.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
And again this is the fifth one in West Virginia.
They're in the New River Gorge area, Eastern Panhandle. Six
I'm sorry, six, I'm sorry.
Speaker 17 (41:29):
Math never mus Strong, Morgantown, Shepherdstown, Elkins, New River, Gorge,
Greenbrier Valley and now Charleston.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Now Charleston. And where can people get more information? Hit
hit up the website there.
Speaker 16 (41:37):
Mar www dot NWV dot com and then it'll be
up on our website very soon to Charlestonay Alliance dot org.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
All Right, Mara and mayor Goodwine. Appreciate you being here,
Thank you, thanks a lot. It is a nine to
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Texas man, you know what would be cool if there
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(44:45):
Teacher and service personnel owning homes and the communities they
served question mark. I guess we'll have to settle for
tourist tech workers getting the help. Danny Jones is here, hey,
doing man.
Speaker 11 (44:56):
Of listening to the show, and one phrase caught me.
The best of the best? Who decides it goes?
Speaker 4 (45:05):
And that's the question I should have asked Mara when
she was here. There was a board that that pixies.
Now how that board has picked I don't know. I'll
have Mara on the show or the mayor at some
point and we'll we'll decide that.
Speaker 11 (45:16):
I mean, I have lot, I have a lot of
friends in southern California.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
We'll get him here.
Speaker 11 (45:20):
Well, I's a lawyer. What if he wanted to move here?
He doesn't need an office or what would he be
able to have an office up there?
Speaker 4 (45:29):
Yeah, if he wants one. Yeah. I mean this is
all Brad and Elise Smith. I mean that they put
twenty five million dollars into this day. This is their baby,
this is this is not something that these communities did,
They're part of it. But this was Brad and the
least said we want people to come to West Virginia.
Here's twenty five million to make it happen.
Speaker 11 (45:46):
It's it's hard, it's hard to do. It's I mean,
I hope it works.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
That's what's worked everywhere else so far.
Speaker 11 (45:56):
I'm in. I'm all in.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
Texas sixty five. It's an interest to move here, question mark. Sorry,
but that raises a little red flag to me, especially
if a lot are for progressive states like California, Illinois,
or New York. A Sudy done before the twenty twenty
election showed how people moved to change the political demographics
from red to purple or blue. News flash, don't think
about moving here to conservative West Virginia and vote progressive
(46:19):
like you did when you're moving from what ruined your state.
Just one let me finish, Just know that West Virginians
will not put up with that, all right, Danny, go.
Speaker 11 (46:27):
It's not going to be an issue. If somebody left
Illinois to come in here, to move here, it'd be
to get away from the pension system which is so underwater.
This governor out there wants to run for president. You
ought to see how bad the finances are, not just
in Chicago, but in the entire state of Illinois. It's
the worst in the country.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
What do you make of now, the president rather the
meme that went out over the weekend referencing apocalypse now
when he says, you're because he wants to change the
Department of Defense to the Department of War, which is
what it was you know previously, I mean like a
long time ago Stintson. Uh yeah. So, so he says,
and I'm paraphrasing, Chicago is about to find out why
(47:11):
we are calling it the Department of War.
Speaker 11 (47:15):
Oh, I just think he's being silly.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Do you think you think that's it? It's not nothing
to be alarmed about, in my opinion. No. Somebody on
one of the Sunday morning talk shows pointed this out. Danny,
what if just say it? Give you for instance, So basically,
President Trump has said, uh, we're willing to go to
war uh for Chicago. And I'm very much paraphrasing. Okay,
what if President Obama would have said, we've got to
(47:43):
clean up pick a city, Nashville, and I am going
to send federal troops into Memphis or into Nashville. Can
you imagine what the what the response would have been
had President Obama said, I am going to send in
federal troops.
Speaker 11 (48:00):
Of Chicago is called Inglewood, and that's where the problem is.
And you don't need troops, you need more police officers.
So if they wanted, if President Trump wanted to help,
he could send more. He could ask congres for a
supplement to hire more police to help in the area
(48:22):
called Inglewood, because that's where the problem is. Where I
go in Chicago, near the near the train station, walking
around up on State Street. There's no problem in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
Yeah, my wife is frequent in Chicago for her job.
And you know, again, it's it's it's it's just those
certain it's certain areas.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (48:39):
But if and if he's got them doing in in
Chicago what they were in d C, they're going to
be picking up litter because that's pretty much what they've
done in d C. That's different, and that's not meant
to be disrespectful to the guard by any many stretches
in the foination.
Speaker 11 (48:53):
But that's not what their mission is in my opinion,
I don't think their mission of course it held. Then
DC is a federal en.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
Clay a little bit different.
Speaker 11 (49:04):
Yeah, yeah, it is different, and it's the lady said that.
The mayor said it helped, but they don't want ice.
She qualified it by saying, we don't want ice. Well
you don't. You don't get to choose. Uh.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
Tex says, was Danny aware of Trump's finances before Trump
was elected the second time? Terrible finances haven't stopped him yet.
Speaker 11 (49:25):
I don't know anything about his finances except he made
a lot of money on bitcoin.
Speaker 4 (49:30):
Tex says, Dave, the President of the United States is
anything but silly, stupid, arrogant, deranged, racist, misogynistic, criminal, pathetic
and said, but not silly.
Speaker 11 (49:38):
He's silly.
Speaker 12 (49:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (49:41):
Why does Danny go out uh go out of his
way to excuse obvious and clear threats of unlawful and
authoritarian action by a sex abuser.
Speaker 11 (49:51):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (49:53):
I'm lost.
Speaker 11 (49:53):
I'm lost on that one.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
All right, so you opened up the restaurant again on Thursday.
Speaker 11 (49:59):
House It's okay, it's it's uh, you know, it's it's hard.
It's a barbecue stand. It's a place where people walk in,
they walk up, and they get waited on. And I'm
working there, but I'm not the one doing it. And
I worked there all morning this morning, and today we
(50:20):
were going to move from chicken and potato salad. So
we've got this. The half chicken is usually eleven ninety five.
We're going to sell it for six ninety five. You
get half chicken and a potato salad and another side
dish if you want to.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
All right, what's your favorite of your side dishes? I
know it's like picking your favorite kid, but what's your
what's your favorite side dish?
Speaker 11 (50:41):
Baked beans?
Speaker 4 (50:42):
Baked beans? Side See, I'm a big I like it all.
But I'm a big fan of your potato salad. I
love the smokeing.
Speaker 11 (50:47):
I just made a whole bunch of it good. I
just made it. I went over there this morning and
made up. I cooked the potatoes yesterday, cook forty potatoes,
put them in the refrigerator, skin them, diced them, and
then made and they were smoked, but they were cold,
So you can't you can't make mashed potato.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
Salads, right, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 17 (51:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
We had a text to the show on I guess
it would have been on Friday that somebody went in
on Thursday. Actually it was Thursday to the network show
that they had gone in Thursday and got the ribs
or something. Somebody sent me a picture on the tax line.
Here looked as good as always.
Speaker 20 (51:26):
I know.
Speaker 4 (51:26):
I mentioned earlier that my I picked up some of
the barbecue and some side dishes and took it home.
Even threw in a couple of salads for me Friday night.
We're great stuff.
Speaker 11 (51:36):
We're getting out of the salad, that's what.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
Well, you told me that before. But then so that's.
Speaker 11 (51:40):
Where you get it. We can't move salads. We can't
move them, so we just took them off.
Speaker 4 (51:44):
The So you just wanted me to take them, basically,
is what you're saying you want. That's kind of what.
Speaker 11 (51:50):
We didn't really care what took them.
Speaker 4 (51:52):
Just even next sucker that comes in gets the salads.
All right, So you got to give me the chicken
special again.
Speaker 11 (51:57):
Today it's half a chicken and potato sow and then
you get another. You give me the Cole Slower baked beans.
We it's it's it's six ninety five, which is five
dollars off.
Speaker 4 (52:10):
All right, Well, sounds like a pretty pretty delicious lunch
for people that are thinking the weather's going to beautiful
this week. Head on over to Couriers, it goes to
place to eat.
Speaker 11 (52:18):
It's on Courtiers Street.
Speaker 4 (52:20):
Danny Jones, always a pleasure to have you here. Thank you,
thanks a lot. Coming up later today Metro News Midday
thirteen News and Tonight Live anchor Amanda Baron and me
from noon to three on this show tomorrow, we're gonna
talk to the folks from the Westside Neighborhood Association and
uh more, we're going to talk about chili and Saint
Albans coming up on the show tomorrow as well, TJ
and Wilson coming up with Metro News talk Line on
(52:42):
this station. I'll be back later today noon to three
for Metro News Midday. For all our guests today producer
Ryan Nicholson, thank you so much. See you tomorrow to
then have fun and love somebody m hm.
Speaker 3 (53:04):
W c h S A ninety six point five that's
in Charleston one oh four point five Cross Lane, a
w VRC media station. We're proud to live here too,
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