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The Boone Show - S5 E2 - Cancer Association of Anderson Executive Director Angie Stringer
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Get ready to be inspired and excited as we welcome Angie Stringer, Executive Director of the Cancer Association of Anderson, and Katie Beth Irby, the new Resource Development and Marketing Coordinator, to share a preview of the much-anticipated Hot Air Affair. With 46 pilots and nearly 50 balloons, including standout stars like the Unicorn and Pirate's Booty, this event promises an unforgettable experience. We dig into the interactive features, such as getting up close with the balloons and their pilots, learning the ins and outs of ballooning, and the opportunities to volunteer for a hands-on experience that combines fun and education for all ages.
We also dive into the festivities of Celebrate Anderson, where you can expect breathtaking balloon launches and a stellar lineup of concerts featuring Randy Houser and Ashley McBryde. Angie shares a moving personal story about the creation of the "Hot Air Fair Rising Above Cancer," offering a touching glimpse into how this event brings hope and joy to cancer patients and survivors. Katie Beth joins in, recounting the emotional impact of previous events and emphasizing the importance of community involvement and volunteer support for making these experiences possible.
Join us as we explore the inspiring journey and mission of the Cancer Association of Anderson, from providing financial assistance and transportation services to offering emotional support through classes and community events. Katie Beth reflects on her transition from dispatcher to her current impactful role, while we also share lighter moments discussing favorite books, eateries, and local high school football rivalries. This episode is brimming with heartfelt stories, practical information on how you can get involved, and a vibrant celebration of community spirit and support. Don't miss out on this heartwarming and informative listen!
Hey everybody, welcome to the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. Glad to have you along with us today. I'm John Boone, along with the boss lady here at the Career Center, Holly Harrell.
Speaker 2:Good afternoon, got a good show today.
Speaker 1:Yes, we do, we always do.
Speaker 2:Always.
Speaker 1:Puggles is here, if you don't know. Hey, puggles was our first baby platypus for our mascot, and we found out that platypuses it's, it's platypuses. It's not platypi really, but their babies are named puggles, so we get the nickname stuck, so that's where it came from except for four years, yeah, and it will continue to stick as long as I know you, just to torture you when you get older.
Speaker 1:But puggles is not our special guest here tonight. We have a couple of special guests from the cancer association of anderson. It's kind of like our annual thing absolutely.
Speaker 2:We always look for them coming. We do.
Speaker 1:We need a dose of hot air, and so we call in angie stringer, the Executive Director of the Cancer Association of Anderson and Katie Beth Irby is here too. She's their new Resource Development and Marketing Coordinator. So welcome, ladies.
Speaker 4:Hello, it's great to be here again. You know we always look forward to coming and visiting.
Speaker 1:And it's always an exciting time of year.
Speaker 5:Always.
Speaker 1:This is an exciting event, so let's hop right into it. The hot air affair, angie what's going on this year?
Speaker 4:Oh, wow, we have more balloons, balloons, balloons, balloons. So when you look out your door window, whatever beginning on Friday morning all the way through Monday morning, you may see balloons in the skies. This year we have our largest number ever, which we have 46 pilots. And the thing you have to understand about hot air balloon pilots they tell me they're never wealthy because they collect balloons. So some of them have more than one. So we're going to have a lot of balloons here. One of my favorites is Laska, the beautiful unicorn, baby unicorn. So she'll be here again this year, so we're real excited.
Speaker 1:What other ones are kind of unique that, like the kids, will be looking for this?
Speaker 4:year we have the pirate's booty that will be debuted at our event. It is a purple, yellow and a little bit of green color to it and it's got flip-flops on the side, so it's really cool. So it'll be making its debut at the Hot Air Fair this year. But we have a. It's going to be a great lineup. We have some wonderful pilots. You know we're real picky about our pilots. They have to be safe, they have to have a good reputation, they have to be, and we just don't just let anybody in. So we're real excited. We've got a great lineup this year of some wonderful pilots who will come out and who love people, love to fly, love their balloons, and so it'll show out in our event where people can come up. The one thing that's different about our event than some of the ones you'll go to is you can get up, close and personal with the pilots and with the balloons. You can get right up there, touch them, talk to them. It's great.
Speaker 2:So how many balloons do you normally have?
Speaker 4:touch them you know, talk to them. It's great. So how many balloons do you normally have? Last year we had 32, which was the biggest we'd ever had. We started out with about 20 the first year and then we've grown it a little bit every year. So this year, like I said, we have 46 pilots. We'll probably have about 50 balloons, because some of them are bringing multiples and they have crew chiefs who can put them up while they fly, so we'll have balloons everywhere.
Speaker 2:You know, what I've always enjoyed when you guys used to do this in Williamston was the fact that you got to help everybody. Yes, Like the kids got to get in there and help move the balloons and actually assist those pilots and those things. Whether you weren't going up or not, it didn't matter, they gave you that opportunity and that was always cool for families.
Speaker 4:We wanted it to be a community event, which we need volunteers. So anybody out there that's looking for something fun to do come out there. They'll say, hey, grab this rope, pull it. That way we need to spread the balloon out, you know, and then help take it down when they land. It is a lot of fun and usually, if you help, they usually give you a little prize of something maybe a pin from their balloon or card and it's real rewarding because you get to learn.
Speaker 4:They talk about what they're doing and why they're doing it, and so it's a fun educational opportunity too, because you get that aviation component of how does a balloon fly? Why does it fly. I love it when people say how do you steer it? Well, you don't. And then they learn about the atmosphere being in layers and how some's faster than the other, some blows one way when the other goes the other way and they drop and go up and that's how they quote, steer the balloon by the layers in the atmosphere. So when you come out you'll get an educational lesson. But it's fun, you know, and plus, you get to know some great people, because the pilots that come in here are just, they're a great community and they love one another. They love showing off their balloons and they love to share the joy of ballooning. So it's going to be a good time and if you're looking for something to do, we definitely could use some volunteers. Katie Beth will tell you all about that.
Speaker 1:All right, and this is going on down at the Civic Center Grounds. Yes, it is Sports and Entertainment Center, whatever it's officially called now.
Speaker 4:We really do miss Williamston, though, and we have to come to the school on Friday morning because we've got to get our taste of Williamston.
Speaker 2:I know it's so nice that y'all include us.
Speaker 4:We love you guys and I really miss doing it there. It was so nice, but you have so much growth going on and when. But you have so much growth going on and when you finish, we'll talk.
Speaker 1:So you are going to have a couple balloons out here on Friday.
Speaker 4:We are Friday morning. Yes, holly's going up there. Yes, we're going to take care of her. We're going to try.
Speaker 1:Better make sure you have a good pilot. That's right, can't lose that one.
Speaker 4:No, can't lose anyone.
Speaker 1:That sounded bad when I said that. But everybody driving into school and everything will get to see that. And I remember a couple of years ago when we almost went up and it was too windy. It's kind of that process you were talking about of seeing how they prep and then blow up the balloons. It's really kind of an involved thing. It takes a while to get everything ready to go.
Speaker 2:It was amazing, though, of how quick they can get the balloon out of their trailer or vehicle and how quick they can get it set up and ready to go. I mean, I was amazed. I thought it was going to take forever, but they've literally got to a science they do.
Speaker 1:They do. They can fold those things up small. Yes, I mean they should. We have a number of things they could fold up around here for us. I think our tent, when we fold it up, takes up more room than those giant balloons in those trailers they have.
Speaker 4:They do, man. They pack those things up and get all the air out of it, and they even have really neat tools. I would love to have been the person that invented this PVC pipe and it's kind of a weird way, and they pull it through and it just gets the air out of it as it goes. But whoever did that is making a fortune because, they patented that it was, but it is cool to see them put it up and then take them down so again it's.
Speaker 1:It's all part of the celebrate anderson bigger festival going on down there. Um, in anderson they've got concerts and everything and the balloon thing is going on at the same time. So, um, tell us about the schedule, about when they can possibly see the balloons? How's the weather looking this weekend?
Speaker 4:The weather's looking pretty good, you know for a while it looked like it was going to rain.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's going to be warm, so wear your short-sleeved shirts and your shorts. But if you want to get around the balloon, I'll tell everybody. Definitely, if you get around them, wear closed-toed shoes, that's the best thing. Wear tennis shoes. Don't wear sandals. They're harder to deal with. But, yeah, the schedule is going to be pretty cool. We've got Friday morning. We'll be here at the Career Campus.
Speaker 4:So if you're out and about, come by. I mean, we had the buses pulling over last year and watching. We did that's right, so we'll have that. We'll be here probably around 630, 645. Sun up is right around 7, and that's usually when they start sunrise. So we'll be out here. But sometimes you know, like John was saying, they'll come out, they'll check the weather, they let what they call a pie ball, which is basically a black balloon. They let it go and they watch it to see what it does as it goes up, so they can see how it's affecting things, and then, if they deem it safe, then we'll put up and they'll take off. One year we couldn't fly because it was higher up, it was windy, but they could put them up on the ground and let people come up and see them. I think they even did some tethers here, they did, they did.
Speaker 4:So that was fun. But Friday we'll be here over at the Civic Center Balloon Launch Field. That's where our event will be. We're going to have everything up there this year, so all our vendors, our food trucks, our kid zone, everything will be up on Balloon Launch Field. And then, like you said, celebrate Anderson will take place Sunday night, but they actually, since this is the 25th anniversary, they're also going to have a concert on Saturday night there. So they have Randy Houser I'm giving them a plug too. They have Randy Houser on Saturday night and Ashley McBride on Sunday night.
Speaker 4:Great concerts, both people yeah so that'll be nice and you can hear the music up from where we'll be or you can go down to the concert too. But every morning we will fly, usually around by the time they get set up, and everything about 7 to about 9, 9.30 is the window. So Saturday morning, sunday morning and Monday morning they'll fly, and then Friday night, saturday night, sunday night, they will fly from about 6, 530-ish to about 9. And we're going to break it up so that we have like half glowing on the field and half taking off. That we have like half glowing on the field and half taking off, so you get to see them fly but at the same time you get to enjoy the glow when they'll be on the field and walk around and meet the pilots.
Speaker 2:That is to me. I think that's my most favorite. The glow, the glow, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's what the really cool thing is combining it with the other festivals. If you're going to the concert and then you you stop by, you see the balloons and then, while you're watching the concert, you can see the glow going on up in the sky and all that. I mean it's a really cool weekend combining the two things. Uh, down there in anderson.
Speaker 4:Now tell us a little bit about the the why of why this event is important to the cancer association well, um, on a personal level, it's very important to me because, uh and I probably have told you all this story every year but when I was going through chemo, I left one day and it was a particularly rough one, and I was leaving and I had been involved with the balloons at the county. I had helped put on the great Southeast Balloon Fest, and before that I had worked with Freedom Weekend Aloft, and so I loved the balloons and I knew a lot of the pilots that were local and close by, and so I was having a really rough day and I kind of leaned my head against the window and when I looked up, one of the balloons was in the sky and I just felt, like, you know, god spoke to me and said you've got to rise above this, just like that balloon. So it stuck with me. It's one of those things, you know just a little seed planted. And so years later, you know, in 2016, that was 2013.
Speaker 4:2016, when I came to the Cancer Association, is when we talked about having a signature event and their balloons had left Anderson. They weren't there anymore, and I said well, guys, I'd love to do a hot air fair rising above cancer. And they loved it and so we started it in. 2017 was our first year and it was just really a great, great opportunity to bring some balloons in and to do something unique and, at the same time, with us.
Speaker 4:All of our fundraisers that we put on have a programming component and it's all about the patients and the survivors, and I like to tell people that Hot Airfare is an opportunity for us to raise awareness about the Cancer Association and cancer prevention and what we do in our services, but also it's an opportunity to give cancer patients and survivors an opportunity to forget about cancer for a little while, because you're having so much fun you don't think about it, but it does a lot for us. And Katie Beth, you want to talk about what it does for us, but it does a lot for us. And Katie Beth, you want to talk about what it does for us.
Speaker 3:Well, it does a lot for us.
Speaker 3:You know, I've been there since February and I've met so many people who have ridden in the balloon or flown in the balloons and just kind of even ones who have said I'm scared of heights but when I was up there I didn't feel anything, you know, and just just hearing those stories and even hearing the stories about those who got to check that off their bucket list before, you know, they ultimately finished their, their battle with cancer and passed away, you know, I think we had several last year who got to fly at the end of their battle, and hearing those types of stories kind of makes it worth it in the sense of you know, we're putting in long hours and we're putting in a lot of hard work on this, but hearing just that little tidbit from people who have flown in these balloons makes every bit of it worth it.
Speaker 3:And I can think of, you know, 10 off the top of my head who have shared, you know, it feels like you're flying on a cloud, you're sitting on a cloud and just the peace that they felt in the balloon and even carry it into the next year when we're planning the event and they're encouraging us and they're encouraging people to get involved. They use that experience on how it made them feel better. I'm really excited this year because one of my mom's best friend was recently diagnosed and she's going to ride with me this weekend, so I'm really excited about that. And you know she's only on her second week of chemo. Well, this will be her third week of chemo, so she needs that freedom feeling for the weekend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good, I mean the closest thing that I've come to this. Well, if you've gone to the top of the Empire State Building, you kind of get a feel for it. I mean, the city of New York is so loud and everything, but you don't hear anything when you're up at the top. It's so quiet and peaceful.
Speaker 3:That's what. I've heard a lot how quiet it is up there. I've never flown, so it'll be my first time too, so I'm super excited.
Speaker 1:So I mean that that's cool. The other thing I did was parasailing back when I was a kid in ocopoco, which was uh kind of the same feeling that you get up there and you just don't hear anything yeah, it's just, uh, just really cool.
Speaker 2:You've done any of that stuff? No, no, no skydiving so this will be a first and kind of the oh, wow, yeah, stepping out, that's good you'll take puggles with you well, why don't you?
Speaker 1:I hope hope I'm going to take my mom.
Speaker 2:She's a cancer survivor. Oh yeah, that'd be good.
Speaker 1:You know here at work who's our vending lady.
Speaker 2:Tammy.
Speaker 1:She came in just the other day and said she rang the bell. That was the first thing I said how are you doing? I'm like what? I didn't even know you had cancer, but she had what?
Speaker 2:kidney cancer.
Speaker 1:She did stage 3, I believe it was and overcame it and yeah, she looks great back on the job.
Speaker 2:Our associate director, stacy Scott, is going through chemo. Actually, she's going to her third chemo tomorrow, so I was actually not going to say anything. I was going to try to get her to go Friday instead of me.
Speaker 1:That'd be awesome.
Speaker 4:Yeah, probably we may be able to get you both. Yeah, we'll have to see how that goes.
Speaker 3:We'll work on that. We might know a few people, you might know somebody.
Speaker 4:We might have some peeps, yeah, but it's just it's.
Speaker 1:You know not to be a downer or anything a downer or anything but when I talk to my kids about making as students, you know about making the psa's and everything I tell them about you know. There's so many issues that teenagers have that you can list. I could go around the room and each one of them could name an issue that a teenager has, but something that everybody is connected to is cancer it does not discriminate you either have had it or it's in your family
Speaker 2:or you know, somebody you know, or somebody you everybody's connected every time we are helping.
Speaker 4:Right now, we have four patients that we're helping under the age of 13 right now and, I believe, two of those are under the age of five.
Speaker 3:Wow think about the impact of that. I mean that's huge, and that's just this month, the referrals that we got this month. We had a few before as well, so I mean we don't have many, thankfully, but we younger diagnoses are are coming through, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, before we jump on, there's a lot more we want to talk about with the Cancer Association. But Katie Beth Angie had mentioned tell people how they can volunteer for this.
Speaker 3:Yes, absolutely. I need you all to come out there and volunteer with us. You guys can email me at katie, K-A-T-I-E, dash, Beth, B-E-T-H, at C-A-A-Anderson I think I added an extra A in there C-A-Andersonorg. But we have several opportunities. You can come out and crew for the pilots which we kind of touched on that a few minutes ago where you kind of help them set up to fly. Some of you will help chase the balloons in the cars and then help them pack up the balloons. So that's a really cool experience. I hear all kinds of great things about that. Most people who do that once come back and do it again.
Speaker 3:We have informational tents that will need volunteers. We'll have ground support parking. You know I need somebody to run around for me. So if that sounds like fun to you, I will definitely take you up on it. And so if you, if you're interested in volunteering, get my contact information and I'll get you set up. We have several students from the area up here, the REN students in action. They like to come out and volunteer as well. So if you have, if you're a part of SIA, we'd love to have you back out there. So there's a lot of opportunities and I can get you, get you, get you hooked up.
Speaker 1:All right. So if you didn't get that address, you can just go to the website right which is caandersonorg, all right. And finally, talk about how you raise funds. With this, I mean, it's a free thing to go to but, how do you get the money you need to make?
Speaker 4:Well, you know it's interesting. A lot of people look at me like, why are you doing this? A lot of work and it's you know, and you know, when you're building an event like this and you guys probably know this it takes a number of years to really kind of get some traction and to get it to where it really is profitable event, which we've been very fortunate. I mean for the work. It's a labor of love too. I mean, we love this and we love this and we love ballooning and we love what it does for our patients. But we've averaged around $20,000 that we've brought in. It's a lot of work for $20,000. However, it's growing and the way that we build it is and that's where your listeners can come in, coming out there and people seeing how many people are there, they want to sponsor and we've got more sponsors every year we've gotten more and that's what pays the bills. So once we get the sponsors, it pays everything, and then everything else that comes in is money for cancer patients.
Speaker 4:So this year we've added a few things. We're going to have a dunk tank. Maybe somebody from here might want to be in the dunk tank, so we're going to sell chances to do that. And then we're also going to have one small area. You know all the parking and everything is free, but we're going to have a real close up area that we're going to sell VIP parking. So if you want to park up close, you can pay and park up close. That's kind of nice, so you don't have to but you can.
Speaker 4:And then we have other things we're doing. We're going to have a competition between the balloon pilots for them to have a bucket, and they get to kind of be a ham for everybody and see if they can get people to give them a dollar, and it'll be a dollar, a vote, and at the end of it we're going to give them a prize for raising the most money. So we'll have all of them out there with buckets and they'll probably be doing some antics to get people to donate. And then how else are we doing it?
Speaker 3:we are going to have t-shirt sales. We had some t-shirts made that are super awesome with a painting that a local artist did has been printed onto the t-shirt. We'll have our old t-shirts for sale for five dollars. Posters um the posters are good.
Speaker 3:The posters they'll have. Each balloon that's attending this year will be listed on the poster with a picture, and it has a beautiful picture by Craig Johnson on the front that is of the glow. So there's a few little things here and there that we have plugged in. I think, like Angie said, we try to keep this free to the community, but it's also to raise funds for cancer patients to the community. But it's also to raise funds for cancer patients. So we have those little things that if you feel led to make a donation and get something in return, we have it out there for you and tethering, oh and tethering.
Speaker 4:We'll be able to do tethering. We don't sell the flights. The pilots deal with that on their own because it's beyond our liability. They have their own. So we list the pilots and if you want to fly, you contact them directly. However, if you want to tether, we do sell tether rides and so we'll have tether rides out there and you can come out and we get. There's several of the balloons that are commercial and we get all the money and it's $25 to tether. So we'll get all that money and then if it's one of the pilots that are there that are a private pilot, they give us half of it. So we'll get half the funds from that and they take the rest. But it's. We should make pretty good money this year. I think this will be the best one we've done, so we're real excited about that.
Speaker 2:And know, as a reminder, you do not get any money from national organizations or anywhere else. This is solely done within your organization.
Speaker 4:Yes, anderson county we have to raise our own money because of that, and a lot of people don't know that. They think, oh, I'm, you know I'm gonna do, and it's great. The American Cancer Society is wonderful. They do great things and I would love to be worked out of a job when they cure cancer. I'll find another one. I'll come see if I can volunteer for you, john. There we go, but until that happens we have to raise our own money because they do mostly research, do mostly research, and so we do it.
Speaker 4:We raise our funds by doing events and by the generosity of organizations, civic organizations, churches, generous donors in our community, and then writing grants. We write grants and that's how we keep going. So it's a long road. It's tough for us to do, but at the same time there's a lot of joy in it and this is one of the joy. Events that we do is the balloon event, but every penny from this goes to cancer patients and and that's what we do, you know I mean it's. We are a local non-profit and the things that we're able to accomplish always amaze me with the small little funds we have. I always loved the Scripture when we were growing up and I actually have it cross-stitched, it said, and he bid them make bricks without straw, because that's what we feel like. A lot of times we don't even have any straw and we've got to make these bricks, but it always happens and we're able to give back to the community and that's what keeps us going.
Speaker 1:All right, much more coming up with Angie and Katie Beth, but now take a breath. We got to shift gears because Zach is on the line.
Speaker 2:Oh, zach, and.
Speaker 1:Zach, who missed last weekend because he had to. Well, he didn't do anything. The phone went dead on us.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And we've gotten that fixed. Holly had the guy on it the next day, first thing in the morning. It got the phone fixed. Zach, are you there?
Speaker 9:I sure am. Oh, it works, Darn it Anyway.
Speaker 1:Zach, how you been man Did you have a good summer?
Speaker 9:Man, I did, man man, me and the family, we took a little vacation, just four of us. We went to myrtle beach and it was nice because it was in between I don't think it got higher than 85, 86 degrees and uh, just, you know, just it's. It's different when it's just your little family. You know, we went with her family and went with my family, but it's just something when it's just your family. And we had a good time. Me and my 4-year-old went to a Myrtle Beach Pelicans game and we went there and then, you know, just found some, just tried to find some cheap seafood down there. That's hard to do down at the coast, but we ate until we couldn't eat no more and just kind of just enjoyed the time together and just ready for Saturday.
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm sure you are.
Speaker 1:This is what we live up to and you know, know, when everybody's injured on your baseball team, you gotta let little brother yeah, okay, excuses excuses but let me tell you this after, after you get your butts whooped on saturday, you can go out to the um hot air fair and use a lot of your hot air to blow up some of those balloons. Take your daughters out there, have a good time seeing the balloons. Maybe see a concert to, you know, get you back in a good mood after that whooping you're going to take on Saturday.
Speaker 9:Yeah, well, you know it's going to be funny when you have to eat that crow on Saturday at about 3.30, because I'm going to be honest with you. If I was a bit, you know, I wanted to say this last week, but somebody wouldn't answer the phone.
Speaker 9:But anyway no, if I was a betting man and I was doing the Vegas, I would take Georgia. But I think Clemson is going to keep it close. I really do. I think it's going to be closer than a lot of people think. But I just think Clemson will make too many mistakes, because if you make too many mistakes against Georgia you will lose. If this was Georgia from two years ago, oh yeah, we get blew out by ten touchdowns.
Speaker 9:Y'all know how much of a Clemson fan that I am, but there wasn't nobody stopping that Georgia team from two you know, two three years ago. I mean, you know so. But I'm looking forward to it. You know it will depend on field position. It's going to be a defensive game, I think, because both defenses are doing well, but I'm looking forward to it. I've been looking forward to it since last year. Matter of fact, I've had a countdown on my phone the day that the bowl game ended. I started the countdown and it's just crazy how fast we've gotten here. I mean, it's unbelievable. But I'm looking forward to it. You know, win or lose, you know it's not really going to hurt them much, especially with the expansion of the 12-team playoff. I'm looking forward to that that's going to be neat, but we'll see.
Speaker 1:Florida State helped you out there by losing their first game. Well, and I called that game.
Speaker 9:I mean, I called that game. Look who they have at quarterback.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well.
Speaker 2:That's his fourth school. Is that right?
Speaker 1:Fourth, school At least.
Speaker 9:Third right it's his third school and his fourth offensive coordinator. He had two at Clemson, because Tony Elliott went to Virginia, and then he had Jonathan Smith at Oregon State and now Mike Norvell, and that's what the transfer portal does to you. I mean, yeah, I think that boat should use it here and there, but when you get a bunch of guys in that ain't never played together, that's what it can do. Georgia Tech shouldn't run all over them like that, like they did. But they did, and I called that game. I knew Georgia Tech was going to be ready to play because of DJ. I mean, no, dj didn't make all the mistakes. He didn't make all the mistakes when he was at Clemson, but he missed two wide-open passes, two wide-open passes Two.
Speaker 9:That should have been touchdowns on Saturday. Yeah, and I mean you know I've heard from Florida State people, mike G Saturday. And I mean you know, I've heard from Florida State people, mike Norvell knows how to develop players. He'll develop DJ. Dabo Sweeney don't know how to develop nobody. You know how many national championships has Dabo won and how many has Mike Norvell won? You know, I mean it's just crazy what people think. Yes, I think Dabo should use the transfer portal. But when tampering comes out, when people say, oh, they've done this, they've done that, you ain't got to put Clemson's name in the hat because tampering goes on, I mean Clemson just lost a commit from a four-star defensive end that went to Duke after he committed to Clemson, you know. So I mean you know it is what it is and that's just the state college football's in right now, but I won't stop watching it.
Speaker 1:Well, there's one thing I can guarantee you about that game on Saturday is it will be closer than I think it will be, because I don't think it will be very close. So you are right about that, that it will be closer than I think it will be. But anyway, shifting gears, I'm just messing with you.
Speaker 9:as you know, I'm looking forward to that game too Do.
Speaker 1:I not get to speak now? No, no, you've spoken enough. I mean, this is only an hour-long show. I mean, come on, we've got to get you your own show. But all right, now you haven't spoken. As we switch to high school football and I know you're a big ring guy now at 4A, so how do you think that's going to go?
Speaker 9:The only team I'm worried about in our region is Westside. I think that's going to be your region championship. We play TL Hanna. We either play TL Hanna or Pottersville, week three. I cannot remember the order. I think it's Pottersville, week three. I cannot remember the order. I think it's Pottersville then Hannah, or it's Hannah then Pottersville.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's Pottersville at rent on week three.
Speaker 9:Okay, and then so I don't. I don't with Hannah. We make too many mistakes and they always sneak out the win. Pottersville's always up in the air. It don't matter if Pottersville's 0-3, 0-8, ritz 0-8 8-0, that game's always close, always. It always has been. So. As far as the 4A, I don't think we'll have a problem Until we get into the playoffs, because then you start matching up with the Green Wolves, then you start matching up with the Green Wolves, then you start matching up with.
Speaker 9:You know, I just hope we don't ever move to 5A because we won't be able to compete in 5A. You know, easily they bumped up to 5A. They're not going to be able to compete in 5A, you know. I just, you know that's why I'm talking on this show right now and I don't get paid enough to do that kind of thing. I hear you so. I hear you so, you know so. But yeah, I think we can compete. I just, we play Westside, the last game, and I believe that we have a salesman that comes into work that sells us some of our lumber, and he is a Westside guy and he thinks just like I think that's going to be the region championship. Yeah, I've heard from multiple people. We we can score on west side, but we cannot stop west side. They're just that good. I mean, they're bringing back just about everybody. They won the state championship last year, yeah so all right.
Speaker 9:Well, you got easily this weekend right yeah, yeah, yeah, we've got uh that team from right down the road. Yeah, but yeah, I hope that's a better game than Palmetto was, because I left with seven minutes to go in the third quarter.
Speaker 1:You could have left with seven minutes to go in the first quarter and still got the same amount out of that game I know kind of like.
Speaker 9:You know it was like them. They were playing like the Phillies doing the playoffs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at least that's better than the Braves playing the playoffs. They're playing like the Phillies do in the playoffs.
Speaker 9:Yeah, at least that's better than the Braves playing in the playoffs. Yeah, I know. Well, you've got to let little brother win every now and then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll see. I've had enough of you now. Now you come on next. Wait, we don't even have a show next week, but we will talk. We will talk about what happens this back.
Speaker 9:Hey, just yeah. Yeah, you got that right Off. Subject Friday night SmackDown comes October the 11th and. I am taking my four-year-old with me. I know you would.
Speaker 1:You know I have a kid and one of my seniors reminds me a lot of you. He's a tall, big guy, like you are, and he watches every minute of wrestling all the time and that's all he ever does is come in and talk to me about wrestling.
Speaker 9:My little girl, tiffany, told me. She said, because we told her about the beach and I bet we heard for three, four, five months Mom, I want to go to the beach, daddy, I want to go to the beach. So Tiffany told me. She said you can take her, but you ain't saying one word to her because she will not shut up about it, will?
Speaker 1:not shut up about it.
Speaker 5:I don't know when I'll get to tell her.
Speaker 9:I'll get to tell her sometime. But that girl wakes up. She calls it W. She wakes up watching W, she goes to sleep watching W.
Speaker 2:So she is my. I don't know if that's good or bad. Yeah, I don't know how to think about that.
Speaker 9:Oh well, to leave y'all with something funny. Tiffany come home one day and she said Zachary, y'all, when Tiffany calls me Zachary, it's not a good thing. So she said you and Carson are going to have to quit wrestling because she is doing them type of moves when her friends at school are getting in trouble.
Speaker 4:Uh-oh, uh-oh.
Speaker 9:Because I'll tell Carson every now and then I'll bust you upside the head. You're going to have to quit saying that too, because she's telling her friends that it's going to be, trouble.
Speaker 1:That's what runs up to them From out of nowhere.
Speaker 9:Yeah, yeah, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 1:All right, Zach. Man, it's good to hear your voice. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 9:All right, Zach. Man, it's good to hear your voice. We'll talk soon. All right, brother.
Speaker 1:Y'all take care. All right, you too. All right, the one and only Zach Howard with his view on sports. He's a mess, he is a mess, but he's our mess, that's right. All right, so let's shift back into gear. I want to know a little bit about this young lady to your right. Angie that has come along and has the nice long title.
Speaker 5:Resource Development and Marketing Coordinator Looks like on her pin there she had to add a couple extra lines.
Speaker 3:I have two pins just to fit it on there. It takes people five minutes to read it.
Speaker 1:Katie Beth Irby, tell us a little bit about your background, how you wound up at the Cancer Association.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I am from Anderson. I have a one-year-old little girl and she's precious. I was a dispatcher at the sheriff's office for the majority of my 20s, for about seven years. I loved that job very much. Angie knows that I did, but the burnout period for that is five years and I made it two over that. So I made it Anyway, fast forward.
Speaker 3:I didn't work through my entire pregnancy and then when it was time to go back to work, I found the first thing I could find and it was horrible. So I had a friend call me and they said I I think that you need to talk to Angie, she's a friend of mine and it's actually a deputy that I used to dispatch for and she said I just had lunch with her, she's looking for somebody and it came to my mind I think you need to call her. So I did and we met. I think I called you on a Thursday and we met on that Friday and I left the office with a start date of the next Monday and it's been wheels on the ground since.
Speaker 2:No doubt, with Angie, no doubt.
Speaker 1:It's not going to be boring.
Speaker 3:I'll say it before she can say it, because she says it every time that it comes up. She says there's no frying pan, straight into the fire, and that's absolutely true, but it's a good fire. I'm going to call it a campfire because it's warm and toasty and we, we do good things. So, um, I'm really thankful to be there. Um, my, my primary roles are community outreach, so I'm constantly running into town and making those connections and trying to, you know, let people know that we're there or, you know, trying to raise funds, and then marketing, which plays into the event portion of it. So I'm kind of, you know, in a sense, angie's assistant in these events, to kind of take some of that stuff off of her, because we all know she goes and goes and goes and we can.
Speaker 1:She'll try to do it all.
Speaker 3:And we'll sit there and tell her what can we do? Give it to us. So we're a great team and we have a great team in general. Our whole office is a bunch of women. We've got women power up there, suede is here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:But we all work really well together and finally she's starting to listen to us and say you don't have to do that. You hired us to help you and we want to help you. So that's my story. That's how I got here.
Speaker 1:Well, that's awesome. If you've done the dispatching, then I think Angie would be a nice change of pace.
Speaker 3:She might be fire, but it's not like real fire. Yeah, literally Like you were dealing with before. Do you ever watch the 911 shows on TV and?
Speaker 1:say this isn't really like this?
Speaker 3:I do not. And you know what's so funny? It's so funny because my parents watch those shows and then my whole family's in the fire department. So they have the scanners going in the house all of the time and it drives me crazy. And they're like why do you not want to hear it? And I say I spent 12 hours a night listening to this and these shows. No, I don't watch them. And people tell me all the time you need to watch 9-1-1. And no, I would sit there and probably roll my eyes the whole time.
Speaker 1:Give me an example of like a real crazy call that you got.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, you know this is the hardest question that a dispatcher has ever asked. Yeah, and oh my gosh, you know this is the hardest question that a dispatcher has ever asked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I imagine everybody asks it too, but anyway, it can be something.
Speaker 3:It probably has to be family friendly. Well, yeah.
Speaker 1:And it doesn't have to be serious, it could just be weird or strange.
Speaker 3:You know, this isn't really strange. Well, I guess it kind of is, depending on who you ask. But we called them frequent flyers that called every night, you know, and typically they're elderly people who you know have have alzheimer's or whatnot. But we had one, one guy, and he lived in the pendleton area. Well, you couldn't understand a word that he said and I loved him. Uh, I wanted to talk to him. Every time that he called and he would call and he'd say they, he'd say they're outside my house, they're outside my house. And you know, no one was actually out there, but if he did not call, we called him because we were worried yeah.
Speaker 3:And so we took him presents on Valentine's Day and Christmas and all the things and I'd call him and I'd say, hey, hey, mister, you know, I'd say his name. I'd say, hey, hey, mister, I'd say his name. I'd say, hey, are you okay? You haven't called us tonight. He'd say, well, they're not outside my house tonight. And so I loved him very much and he was fun. You had to learn how to get to understand him because he was very hard to understand. But he would be like, hey, girl, they're outside my house, they're going to take me away tonight. You know, and bless his heart, they weren't, that was never happening. But those, those kinds of stories I'm going to tell you. All my other stories I can't tell.
Speaker 3:I can't even the first one that came to my mind. I was like oh, check yourself, you don't need to tell that one.
Speaker 1:All right, Um, we're going to take a quick little break here and then we're going to come back. We're going to take a quick little break here and then we're going to come back. We're going to talk about a little of the history and mission of the Cancer Association and talk about all the other events that you have coming up. It's not like a one-time shot with this hot air affair. There's a lot of stuff going on that's coming up as we continue with Angie and Katie Beth from the Cancer Association of Anderson on the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio Strength.
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Speaker 1:Back on the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio, visiting tonight with Angie Stringer and Katie Beth Irby from the Cancer Association of Anderson. We've talked about the hot air affair with all the balloons happening down in Anderson this weekend and let's talk about for people that may have not heard the complete story of the Cancer Association. Let's spend a few minutes with that, angie, as you talk about the history of it, the mission of it, some of the services and stuff that you do. Holly's already mentioned the fact that it's, you know, all local and it's really kind of amazing and you amaze me every year, because you have different numbers as it keeps growing about how many people you're able to take care of and how few people you have that manage to take care of them. It's really amazing. So tell us where you're at this year, a little bit of history and what the Cancer Association is all about.
Speaker 4:Well, in 2003, in March, a group of leaders in Anderson County recognized the fact that there were people who were falling through the cracks in our community that really needed help and weren't able to get it. Either they had insurance but not enough, or they didn't have insurance and couldn't get to their treatment. And leading that charge was Katherine Smith, who's the original founder. She worked with Dr Malick and his wife, Dr Malick they're both oncologists and also some people in the community and started raising funds to put together and bring about Birth of the Cancer Association of Anderson. And it started in a small house that was over 110 years old on East Calhoun Street and has been there ever since. We've moved next door. We still have that property, but the house was literally falling in around us. So we are in the next door house now but getting ready to start a building campaign. We've already had our capital campaign and we're about two-thirds of the way there, and so we're going to be breaking ground in October on our new facility, which is great.
Speaker 4:But just to give you a synopsis of what we do, our mission, summed up, is to lessen the burden on Anderson County residents who are battling cancer, and we do that by providing financial assistance, whether it's mileage reimbursement or if someone needs to go out of town or to Emory, MUSC, MD Anderson or a distant facility for treatment, we give them a stipend based on the distance. If you're going to MD Anderson, it's $250. If you're going to Emory it's, I think, $100. If you're going to Levine, it's $100. So there's different levels depending on where you're going. So we do that. We also pay for prescription medicine. We do not pay for chemo drugs, obviously, because one chemo drug would put us under the table.
Speaker 2:They're expensive.
Speaker 4:Unfortunately and don't get me on my soapbox there paying for, like pain medication, antibiotics when you get infections, nausea medication, things that your oncologist prescribed to help you get through treatment. So we do that. We also pay for, like a lot of people who have like, maybe colon cancer or kidney cancers or anything like that, may have some incontinence problems. So we pay for diapers you know the adult diapers and we have those on hand and also order them for them. We pay for nutrition.
Speaker 4:A lot of times when you're going through chemo I mean I can certainly attest not only do you not want to eat food but you don't want to smell it, see it or anything, and so the nutrition drinks. They don't have much of a smell and you can usually just drink them down and make yourself do it to keep your strength up and your calorie count up. So we pay for things like that. We also have a vehicle that we've had for three years now almost three years to where we can actually pick people up across the county and take them to their treatment and back home. We got that through a grant and that poor car is still going. It looks great but it's got about 95,000 miles on it in those years.
Speaker 3:We're pushing 100. We're close. I'm pretty sure we're getting even closer.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so it's five to eight patients a day and that's two trips one there and then back home From all over. It can be in Williamston, powdersville, iva Star, pendleton, everywhere, and it may be one here and then one over there. So we're pushing it on that. When we can't get them all in, we supplement with Uber. We can get an Uber and do that. We are trying to build up a group of volunteers who we could call in to help with that when we get in trouble and need more people to go. So if you're interested in that or know somebody that would like to drive and just be an encouragement to patients, we could use that. So we do that. We help with wigs and hats and scarves and things like that. We have classes on nutrition. We have classes on. We have one class that I love called Face Forward, where patients can come in and we have two wonderful, wonderful women that come in and talk to them about skincare, talk to them about how to draw your eyebrows.
Speaker 4:You know people think, because it changes your body, changes Absolutely it does, your skin is like completely different, and your hair and when you get it back that is, if you lose it, when your hair comes back, it's completely different. So they teach them how to do that, how to put on makeup. You know a lot of people don't realize that you don't just lose the hair on your head, but you lose all your hair. I didn't have to shave my legs. That was the best part.
Speaker 2:That's the only good part, that was the positive.
Speaker 4:I had to find it. But you lose your eyebrows and your eyelashes and people don't think about your eyelashes, but they have a job to do and when you don't have them, your eyes stay red and they burn and you get dust in them. So these gals come in. They show them how to put makeup on so they feel normal because you know you don't feel normal when you're going through treatment. And they show them how to fix their wigs, how to clean them, how to make sure that their makeup brushes and everything are clean and sanitized, because you don't want an infection when you're going through it. So that's a great class. It's called face forward. I love that class and everybody that goes in, that go in and they're a little nervous and when they come out they're laughing and talking and they have made new friends. So that's a great thing. We do it once a month, um, so we do all kinds of things like that and every bit of it is free. Yes, it is it really is.
Speaker 4:Everything and we get to love on people too. That's the best part. We do get attached to people and you know, when you come in our door you might be a stranger, but you don't leave that way. You have several friends and family when you leave, and so it's. It's just a wonderful place to work and, like Katie Beth was saying a while ago, we're all family there and we have the best team and when one of us struggles, all of us struggle and we have our little thing.
Speaker 4:You don't think about it. You get tired of the people you work with a lot of times. I know y'all don't understand that, because you love one another. But you can get tired of people, but not these gals, I mean. We're texting each other all the time, you know, day or night. You know, hey, I got this coming up, hang in there and things like that. So it's a great group of people and you never leave a stranger.
Speaker 4:But the Cancer Association is just such a wonderful organization and I've been there and I am a little partial to it, but I've been on both sides. When I came through the door as a cancer patient, they were there for me and now it's a joy to be able to give back and to see somebody feel that relief, and you can see it in their eyes when you say you know, I might not have the same cancer you did, but I sat where you did and I felt totally helpless and that I wasn't in control. And you see, the the stress start fading away because they're not alone, and so when you come through our doors you're never alone again, and so that's, that's our big thing, and I'm just real grateful to those that built the platform that we have now and it's grown every year, like you said, they're still so heavily involved as well.
Speaker 3:Those that started, founded the cancer association, and we see them all the time, often all the time and if I don't, I'm like where's? Where are they? Where's katherine?
Speaker 4:but yeah, it's, it's just, uh, it's a great mission, we and, uh, we're able to do it and we feel blessed that we are. I laugh. We used to have our banker. He would. He'd call me and be talking to me and I'd say I don't know what you have going on with those loaves and fishes over there, but keep it going. So we've always managed to have what we need and it's due to the generosity of people that live in our community. We live in a great, great community. People don't take it for granted. You have no idea. When we start talking about what we do in the Cancer Association when we're outside of Anderson County, people are amazed and I've had people from Greenville even say y'all are so lucky and it's a blessing and I feel like we're in like a unicorn, magical place because great things happen there and so I feel blessed.
Speaker 1:So how many people do you take care of now and how many people are you working for you?
Speaker 4:Because this ratio always amazes me, yeah right now we have well, I'm the director, so I'm full-time, which is 24-7, pretty much directors, so I'm full-time, which is 24-7, pretty much. I have three staff who are 32 hours, including Katie Beth, and so they're there, which is full-time, because our doors are only open Monday through Thursday, so we use Friday, in the weekend and evenings to do the work, to bring the money in, so that we can do what we do Monday through Thursday. But we have also have one person that started, probably in March, right after you did, who Brooke, and she's wonderful. She is working about 24 hours a week and she's starting to help me with special projects and things like that and she's our real organizer and she's got that. You know, get in line, she's military.
Speaker 3:She really does. I gave her a new nickname. I call her Warden Farmer.
Speaker 4:She's great, I love her I really do.
Speaker 4:She's wonderful and she's very organized, so we're very thankful for her. And, of course, haley has been with me since October. She started and she filled a niche that we have needed so long. She's our patient services advocate, so as soon as we get the referrals coming in, she calls them and talks to them and tells them one-on-one what we do and sets up an appointment for them to come in and tour and see our place, which is great, and so it's really adding. That extra thing that we needed there is to have that hands-on, one-on-one and they feel like they have friends there. So that's been amazing.
Speaker 4:And she's been able to, because for a long time people would get the prescriptions paid and they would think you know that the hospital paid it. You know they didn't realize because the pharmacist maybe wasn't saying you know, this is paid for by the Cancer Association. So we were lacking some of that loyalty too from people that realized that we were the ones doing it. So she's made that niche and then we have Kim. Kim has been with me the longest and she is our site manager, so she's the first person when you walk through the door. She's the first person you see and she has got the most tender heart. You could come in and tell her a story and she'll cry with you.
Speaker 4:And you'll be crying with her Every time and she'll come in my office and she'll say can I just stand here a?
Speaker 3:minute. Yesterday I called her in the hall. I said are you okay? She said I just need to get myself together before I go back up there for the next patient. I said okay.
Speaker 4:Because she sees them when they come in and maybe they just left. She's a survivor as well.
Speaker 3:She's been through it as well, so she feels it on a deeper level. She's a colon cancer survivor.
Speaker 4:So she's amazing. But she just loves on them and hugs them and she knows their whole story and what their dog's name is and where they live and how many grandkids they have. So she's perfect for the job. So she's great. And then we have a volunteer slash, one day a week really, marilyn, who comes in, and she's from up north, so she comes in and tells us we're going to do it this way. So she's great too. She's there. So that's us. So really it's me, katie, bethh, hayley brooke and kim, and uh, we and how many people you have coming through your door oh, we had.
Speaker 4:We average new referrals now um same as before, probably around 60 a month as a medium number. Um, some months it's higher, some months it's a little bit lower. Very rarely much lower. But that's about where we are and those are new referrals. So we still have those other people coming in and there are days when our phone will ring 60 times a day.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 4:so we're really busy and last year I'm trying to remember off the top of my head, but we had patient contacts and that's you know. It could be one person more than once, but the people that we're spending time with patient contacts different times they come in. We had over 11,000 last year.
Speaker 3:Wow, I think one day last week Kim had 99 people walk through the door on one day. Wow, and think about that, divided by five, people walk through the door on one day.
Speaker 2:Wow, and think about that. Divided by five people, which not all of them are full time. Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I don't have any patient contact, so it's really divided between four. I won't say any, but you know my primary role is not, so it's really putting. Kim and Haley have the most contact with patients, you know, and then we have the rest of the yeah.
Speaker 4:It's crazy. We're able to do it. I don't know how, I do not know how and I can't take credit. None of us can take credit, it's, you know. I mean, I'm one to say I give God the credit for that, because he gets us through every day and we're able to help more people than I can even imagine. And, um, it's, it's one of those things you go home and you can lay your head down and you're exhausted, but it's a good exhaustion you know, because you know somebody difference.
Speaker 4:Yeah, somebody got some help today because you were. You showed up, and sometimes that's all we can do is show up.
Speaker 1:You know, that's right all right, we're going to take a quick time out and then come back and kind of wrap it up with, uh, kind of a summary of all the events that Cancer Association of Anderson has coming up and we'll get our guest recommendations. Yes, we're going to ask Angie and Katie Beth to give us entertainment and food recommendations. It's something we're doing. We're going to write a book eventually About all of our guests and all their recommendations.
Speaker 2:The local areas.
Speaker 1:Be ready for that. Did you want to say something over there?
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:No, no, I thought you were pointing to me. Okay, we'll be right back to wrap things up on the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio.
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Speaker 1:Welcome back to the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio Speaking of Hill Electric. They're going to be our next guests on our next show in September.
Speaker 2:Oh, they are phenomenal people. Wow, the bosses. So Trey's coming. Yeah, yay, trey and David, right, yep.
Speaker 9:And the ladies will be here too. Oh, yes, angie.
Speaker 1:Angela and.
Speaker 2:Oh, so are you having the women's confidence builders? They're all coming, okay.
Speaker 1:They listed it as Hill Electric is coming.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 5:So, on the 17th of September.
Speaker 1:That's the next show that we do live. Okay, They'll be in here, and then the week after that we'll have the Denver Downs Forum.
Speaker 1:Catherine, yes, okay so that's, the show is coming up in September, but for right now we're having a great time talking about the Cancer Association of Anderson, all the great things that they do and got going on. So I imagine we're shifting it over to Katie Beth here to tell us about all the other events outside of the Hot Air Affair this weekend that you can get involved in and help out the Cancer Association of Anderson and have some fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so well, you know we didn't even mention. The craziest part of this weekend is that we decided to combine three events with one event. So, along with the Hot Air Affair, this weekend, saturday morning will be our annual color run. It's our third annual color run colors against cancer. That will be at 7 30 am at the same location, the balloon launch field where the balloons will be taking off. So the balloons will be taking off and our runners will be running. You'll have color in the sky and color on the ground, and sky and color on. I should have used that, that's good that's good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we'll also have our survivors walk, which we do every year as well, and, you know, wear white. If you want to come out and register, registration is still open. You guys can do that on the day of as well. Monday, on Labor Day, we'll be having our second annual Derwood Penninger Classic Car Show. He was a cancer patient as well, and his daughter works for the People's Bank and they started this event last year. He was a big car guy, so registration is still open for that as well. If you like classic cars, you can come on out. Of course, I need volunteers for both of those as well. But outside of this weekend we have the golf tournament, which will be the Teed Off Against Cancer October 11th. That'll be our next. Oh, I'm sorry I totally skipped our biggest event aside from the hot air fair. Our concert of hope and remembrance is September 14th at Boulevard Baptist Church. This year it is folk songs from the heart, so they'll be singing songs like when the Saints Go Marching In A Danny Boy, a Marriage.
Speaker 1:Either of you in it this year.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 4:I will be introducing everybody, but, as you can tell, sinuses are not my friend right now. They're not mine either. So and also I don't know dr.
Speaker 3:Dr kim might be like katie beth we don't need you, we've got enough members but yeah, so that that's our a little bit about that event is it's the event that started the cancer association. It was started two years before the founding actually happened and it was used to raise money to make it happen. So it's kind of treasured. Everyone loves it and it sells out every year. So we'll have that. And then, like I said, the golf tournament in october. We'll also get together around halloween for you know community, drop in and trick or have a couple of vendors Scare away cancer, scare away cancer. There you go, yep. And then November, beginning of December, we'll hold a sip and shop. So that's our year end and then we'll start over in February with our girlfriend's tea.
Speaker 4:But you know what you guys could do. We do every year the sheriff's office and Anderson Police Department. We do a no-shave November, and so it's a dollar a day. I can handle that, and so people pay it not to shave, and so you know they do that. We've even had some women say they would do that too. I don't know that everybody would be happy about that, but they do that and then we get the money from it. So no Shave November, have a competition.
Speaker 3:Of course, october is Breast Cancer from it. So no shame. November yes, and of course, of course, october is breast cancer awareness month, which is a huge month for for us in general, because you know, I mean, there are multiple types of cancer but breast cancer is. Everyone comes together for that and we've already got people holding fundraisers. You know restaurants contacting us and we have a pest control company who wants to do a t-shirt fundraiser, so so they really come through in October for us to raise some money.
Speaker 1:And that's not just women either. I know a couple of friends of mine. Guys have had breast cancer.
Speaker 3:Yes, you know, what I really want to do one year is have the schools compete with each other in October to see who can raise the most money.
Speaker 4:I mean all the schools and we'll do a big trophy yeah. And then you know kind of like a spirit trophy.
Speaker 3:It goes to each school each year. Whoever wins gets the trophy for that year, and then the next school year they get Switch it around, yeah, so if y'all want to get in on that, yeah, we can help you with that.
Speaker 1:That'd be fun. That'd be students involved. Yeah, exactly, I'd love to. Um, okay, so now is the time of our show, when we wrap things up, that we get our guest recommendations first. Uh, entertainment recommendations. It could be a book. You're reading, something you're streaming, binge watching, if you have time, tv movie, whatever, um, and then we'll get to food after that, and that could be a recipe that you've, you've tried, you've made yourself, or a restaurant, or a dish at that restaurant, whatever. So we're gonna start with entertainment. Angie, what, what can you recommend to our listeners?
Speaker 4:entertainment wise well, I started watching a show. It's not new, but it's on netflix and I have been glued to it. Um, it's called the Resident and it is so good it's a that's a doctor.
Speaker 4:Show it's a doctor show and I was surprised I liked it that much because I don't really get into. You know, I don't watch a lot of series, so but my son told me he goes, mom, you'd really like this, and I started watching it and it's really good and it'll just draw you in, um, but it, the dynamics of it and the relationships of the people, and then you, you get to get mad at you know some of the companies and some of the things that happen and you get mad at that. It's not fair, um, which I get really upset about. How expensive chemo drugs are, you know, and everything. So you get to feel that too.
Speaker 4:And then Justice is Served, you know, I mean it's just really good. It's a great show. It's called the Resident, so I love that. And then I will tell you that I do love to read and I got involved in reading this book. It's a Christian book. John and Lisa Bevere are a family. They're in the ministry together, but they mostly do podcasts and books and everything, and so Lisa had a series called Girls with Swords and it is so good and it breaks down things that we go through in our lives and how God, you know, has a plan for us and everything, and how we get targeted to throw us off track and all, and so it's really been an encouragement to me. But it's Lisa Bevere and it's called Girls with Swords.
Speaker 1:All right, sounds good. The resident and girls with swords.
Speaker 3:All right.
Speaker 1:All right, Katie Beth, what do you got for us?
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I've read 60 books this year.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got a Kindle for Christmas. I like to read or I'm trying to get back into liking to read and it's working so far, so I could not say so.
Speaker 2:I could not. I don't think I've read that in my life, me neither. I wish I could read more.
Speaker 3:I know I got on my Amazon the other day to look at how many I'd read and I was like that is insane. But I'm also one of those people who, once I read it, I couldn't tell you what it was about. I have no idea I mean I could tell you general the gist of it, but if you, if you were like what, what was? The details? So the comprehension, can't remember 60 books.
Speaker 2:Like she has a one-year-old yeah, I read late enough I read late at night okay oh, does those 60 books include, like the, the books you read to your one-year-old? No, oh, these are adorable, because I could probably get that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no but currently I am in the psychological thriller genre Nice. So I'll just tell you what I'm reading right now and I just started it last night or night before last. It's called Thirteen and it's about a jury and the actual criminal is on the jury. So they're you know he's on the jury to to send whoever to prison for this crap, for murder even though he did it even though he did it, so I'm only on chapter two.
Speaker 3:So I have to follow up, I have to call in and let you guys know what what the follow-up was. Um very interesting, very interesting. Already just in the second chapter I'm like, well, this is totally weird, but I'm excited. But then of course I read the Colleen Hoover books, so of course I took myself on a little date by myself to see. It Ends With Us last weekend or the weekend before and it's a great movie.
Speaker 3:All the girls are talking about that, yeah, and I think they did a really good job of making it to where a teenage girls can go see it without it being inappropriate, and I think that that's a good lesson, for I think boys should go see it too, because it teaches good lessons about healthy relationships. So I'm all for advocating for that, and so it was a great movie, and I read the book as well. I think the book's probably better, of course, but naturally, and yeah, take, take the young ones to see it, let them learn some lessons, and if you're needing some encouragement, I think everybody could benefit from it, yeah.
Speaker 1:The books are always better, of course. Yeah, that's a given. It's much more detailed, obviously. Yeah, you can't fit a whole book into a movie, see the movie, read the book, and 13 was the other book she recommended there. All right Food, angie Food, one of my favorite subjects or a place to eat or something, yeah.
Speaker 4:One of my favorite subjects. Well, my favorite place to eat is at home, because I have a wonderful cook for a husband and my favorite thing he fixes is he does a pork tenderloin on the grill and he hand makes mango chutney and blue cheese crumbles and he puts it on it once he like divots out a little bit of it, you know, and then he puts all that on there and it just melts when it's hot and so all those tastes together it's just like whoo, and then he'll do the asparagus on the grill and that's that's like good eating there.
Speaker 4:That's my very favorite favorite, but if you're looking for some place to go, I've really enjoyed going to Culver's in Anderson Culver's is good, I've heard they're good they are. They have a great fish sandwich. That's what I've heard. I've heard their fish sandwich is good. It's really delicious, and then you can get a concrete before you leave.
Speaker 3:Yes, and they're great supporters of the Cancer Association as well?
Speaker 4:Yes, they are.
Speaker 3:They are very. I mean, that's not a plug we do really like. Culver's, but they are very supportive of us.
Speaker 1:They are yeah, that's great. I like their burgers and they're kind of like Freddy's, but kind of like Freddy's on steroids. Freddy's, yeah, but kind of like freddy's on steroids, yeah, freddy's but better, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So what do you have? Um well, okay, so it's not an anderson, but my mom and I have been going to full plate creperie in, uh, downtown pickens, so wait downtown somewhere I'll tell you where it is some little town holly will have it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, her nickname is google, so it is in pickens okay yeah, so if you like crepes, they have crepes, meat southern like their current summer savory, yes, savory or sweet, they have both, but like their current summer menu I think they only have a few days on their summer menu, but they have like blt crepes and it has duke mayonnaise like sprayed on top and it is so good.
Speaker 3:And then they have um biscuits and gravy a crepe oh my god so I mean like different things like that, and then some of them are a little more sophisticated but and their dessert crepes are of course, to die for, and so we've got to get back up there. But that's my current. I kind of crave it all the time what's it called the what creperie?
Speaker 5:full plate, full plate creperie. Looks like it's downtown.
Speaker 3:It is, yes, it's right there near coyote coffee.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah all right, that's very cool, all right. Well, ladies, thank you so much for spending an hour with us. Thank, you you guys
Speaker 1:have so much great going on. We love checking in with you every year. Um, and everybody get out and see the hot air fair this weekend down in anderson. There's lots to do, as mentioned that. They've got all that going on and you've got celebrate anderson going on all in the same place, so you might as well just go spend the weekend down in anderson and, uh also, you know, support the cause here as well. Again, tremendous, tremendous work that you do. I'm amazed every year at the stories you're able to tell us, and nice to meet you, katie Beth.
Speaker 3:Nice to meet you. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:Welcome. Welcome to the team, I'm sure you love working with Angie. I've never heard a bad thing about her in my life, so the pressure's on but we hope to see you again soon and, of course, you guys can chime in anytime you want us to help out with something. We'd love to send some kids over there, help you out with some campaigns, whatever there is. And yeah, we'll see you again soon.
Speaker 4:Yeah, by the way, you guys got your students did our very first poster for our event for Hot Air Fair, and so all I've done every year is just change the balloons out. So it is still the poster, the background and the layout that your students did. Oh, wow, oh, that's kind of cool. Yeah, that's been several years now. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is really cool. So, okay, next week we're all all. Well, we're off for a couple weeks, our two weeks in september, the 17th and the 24th, hill electric, and then denver downs uh, talking about the, uh, the, the festival, the far fall festival at denver downs farm, uh, coming up and uh, we'll be there for opening weekend on the 28th, as a matter of fact. So thanks everybody for tuning in. Holly, thanks for taking time out of your very busy day, absolutely Puggles head back to robotics or whatever you're here for. Thanks for answering the phone. You did your job admirably tonight. And thanks everybody for listening. Don't forget, tell your friends they can get the podcast on Spotify. I'll be up there in a few days. Spotify or Apple or wherever you get your podcasts if you want to listen.