WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:06.280 It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's Radio. 2 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:09.839 Thank you, Nicole. Good to know the Bruins are winning 3 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:12.560 and they're ahead of the Capitals. Let's get those duck 4 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:17.199 boats ready for a Stanley Cup parade. We're always optimistic 5 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:19.559 here in New England. Good evening, everybody, and welcome on 6 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:22.960 into a Tuesday night edition of Nightside. My name is 7 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:27.239 Dan Ray, and three months from this night we'll be 8 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:31.719 celebrating Christmas Eve. I hate to remind you of that, 9 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:36.439 but it's three months left to do your holiday shopping 10 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:39.759 and uh just you'll get the warning every once in 11 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:42.079 a while, every every month, that's a matter of fact. 12 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:44.560 My name is Dan Ray. I'm delighted to be here 13 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.640 as always, and I'm sure you're delighted to be wherever 14 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:50.280 you are, that is for sure. And Rob Brooks, I know, 15 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.920 is absolutely delighted to be back in the control room 16 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:59.759 in the broadcast center of the world as I Rob 17 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:03.039 you there. I'm telling you right now, everything is on 18 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:04.959 your shoulders. I don't want to put any pressure on you, 19 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:08.560 but you got to keep everything rolling tonight, okay, you 20 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:11.480 Betty said, all right, I like that. All right, this 21 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:14.439 is our first hour which is the night side News Update, 22 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:17.040 and we have four special guests lined up for you, 23 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:19.560 and then later on tonight we'll get some topics that 24 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:22.400 may be somewhat controversial. We're going to start off with 25 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:27.439 Joeanne Simon. She's the president and CEO of Northeast ARC. 26 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:31.040 Joanne Simon's I'm very familiar with the work of ARC, 27 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:34.560 not only your ARC, but all sorts of arcs around 28 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:36.480 the New England area. How are you. 29 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:41.439 Tonight, I'm great, Dan, Thanks for having me and letting 30 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:42.959 me talk a little bit about our work. 31 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:47.519 Yeah, we're here to celebrate construction of a home for 32 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.200 people with developmental disabilities and complex medical issues, which of 33 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.439 course is the core of the mission of the ARC, 34 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.959 not only the Northeast ARC. Tell us about this home 35 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.519 and who's it going to and everything you'd like to 36 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:05.319 like to share with us tonight so we make people 37 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:10.639 understand what a great, a wonderful, wonderful organization the Northeast 38 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:11.120 ARK is. 39 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:14.960 Thanks Dan, and I'm glad you mentioned that there are 40 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:16.800 other arcs, because there are a number of arcs around 41 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:19.599 the state and we all do phenomenal work and supporting 42 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:24.919 people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. And autism and their families. 43 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:27.319 But I want to talk a little bit about this 44 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.560 really special home that we opened in top Fill just 45 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:35.080 a few weeks ago. This home will ultimately support four individuals. 46 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:39.280 Right now there are three, and you mentioned complex medical needs, 47 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:44.479 and these are among the most complex medical needs that 48 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:46.039 you can imagine. 49 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:47.759 The three individuals that are. 50 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:53.360 Living there now all rely on ventilators and they have traits, 51 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:57.759 and this means that we are able to support them 52 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:01.280 in the community. And what's really remard remarkable about these 53 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:07.120 three individuals who require twenty four hour nursing care is 54 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.680 that they were all living with their families before. They 55 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.680 now are living in their own home, in a beautiful 56 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.120 home where we've been welcomed in top Field. And so 57 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.680 the heroes of this story are really the families who 58 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:24.400 provided extraordinary care and now they trust us, the Northeast Doc, 59 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:28.639 to take care of their most pressured, precious loved ones. 60 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.039 And we do that with we have direct support professionals, 61 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:36.800 and we have registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, and 62 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.599 they're receiving the same level of care as many people 63 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:43.879 in hospitals or nursing homes require but weren't able to 64 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:47.800 do it in the community and provide them the opportunity 65 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:50.759 to live their best life. And just a couple of 66 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.039 weeks ago, I've just. 67 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:57.319 Looked a picture here, and obviously we're radio and not television, 68 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:01.360 but what a wonderful picture with the ribbon cutting ceremony. 69 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:05.759 Just boy, I'll tell you, yeah, if everyone could see 70 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.759 this picture, I'm sure everybody would be supporting all the 71 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:10.800 programs that are go ahead. I didn't need to interrupt 72 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:11.120 you with. 73 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.719 No, And you know, I'm glad you talked about the 74 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.800 picture because you know, we had at the opening our 75 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:22.399 elected officials, you know are state representatives and state senators, 76 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:27.319 the town officials from the town of top Field, you know, 77 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:29.879 as well as you know, members of the Northeast OARC 78 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:33.839 family and our state partners and the Executive Office of 79 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:37.360 Health and Human Services and the Department of Developmental Disabilities. 80 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.240 And there were times when people talk about and you know, 81 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:43.040 make comments about, you know, the work of the state. 82 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.800 They don't really understand that the partnerships that we enjoy 83 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:52.120 really allow people with some of the most complex needs 84 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:55.879 to really have wonderful lives. And that's because government and 85 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:59.720 private organizations like the Northeast do OC nonprofit organizations that 86 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:03.439 we are you know, work together to create these opportunities 87 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.959 for people. And we are grateful for those kinds of 88 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:09.959 partnerships from our state and local elected officials and our 89 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.439 funding sources which are state agencies, and you know, obviously 90 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.800 the legislature which year after year has really been able 91 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:22.199 to identify the needs of people with developmental intellectual disabilities 92 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:25.959 and autism of being of highest priority and have provided 93 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:27.560 us the needed funds to do the work. 94 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:31.240 I'll tell you most people, including myself, don't mind our 95 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.879 tax dollars and other funds that we may choose to 96 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:38.879 contribute to go to a great organization, like any of 97 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:41.199 the arcs that that is for sure. Was this a 98 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:45.000 new house. I was having trouble getting into the story for. 99 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.480 A brand new house, brand new house we had, you know, 100 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:51.240 and like everyone else's tried to enter the housing market, 101 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:53.560 you know how difficult it is. So one is we 102 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.839 needed to find land. We needed to you know, do 103 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:00.480 the improvements to be able to make the landropriate to 104 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.240 actually build the house. And you know that means architecture. 105 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:08.439 Architects are architects contractors, you know, it means, you know, 106 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:10.279 furnishing the house. It means, you know, making sure that 107 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:12.680 the gas and the electric is is put into it. 108 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.240 And you know, with the supply chain that we've had 109 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.240 and that you know, demands and housing, it's very expensive 110 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:23.720 to build new construction in this state. And that's really 111 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:25.560 one of the challenges that all of us in the 112 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.319 nonprofit world and the arcs you know, are facing of 113 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:32.800 the same face, same challenges that homeowners are people renters 114 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:36.000 who want to become homeowners are facing. Is that the 115 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:41.319 incredible costs of you know, acquiring and finding suitable homes. 116 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:46.959 Looking again at the picture, you realize the level of 117 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:53.279 disabilities that these folks are dealing with. Uh, they obviously 118 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:59.360 need a lot of care. How many other people, Uh, 119 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:04.519 these folks are in a difficult set of circumstances. I'm 120 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:07.680 looking at at an older woman and a younger man. 121 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:13.439 These must be very rare conditions. But but there must 122 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:16.040 be others out there who are not fortunate. 123 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:19.839 It is rare, you know, and we often get to 124 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:21.720 you know, I get to talk to you and others 125 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:24.759 about and we can celebrate the incredible achievements of people 126 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.399 with disabilities, you know, who are working competitively and living 127 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:32.439 independently and and you know, have families and doing wonderful 128 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:36.399 things and achieving great success. But we also want to 129 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:39.240 make sure that those folks who have these kinds of 130 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.600 complex needs, like the people in the picture that you're 131 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:46.160 referring to, also have those opportunities. So it is there 132 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:50.279 there are fewer people with these kinds of significant medical issues, 133 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:55.120 and they're caused by a number of different different Sometimes 134 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.879 it's a birth injury and sometimes it's an injury acquired 135 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:04.000 later in life, regardless of their the severity of the disability, 136 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:05.560 and you can see in the pictures that these are 137 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:08.600 people with a lot of equipment around them and a 138 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:12.959 lot of need for hands hands on assistance. These are 139 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.319 people who you know, aren't able to communicate in the 140 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.240 way that we communicate verbally or even with an eye gazer. 141 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:23.480 But these are folks that you really subtle ways of 142 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:28.560 communicating their likes or dislikes, or they're discomforts. But in 143 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:31.480 spite of all these challenges, I'm really proud that our 144 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:35.320 team members are really able to get these folks into 145 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:37.639 the community. And just a few weeks ago they enjoyed 146 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.639 a great family festival that we had at the Market 147 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:43.879 Street in Winfield, and they're out in the community living 148 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:47.039 the best life that they can live alongside you know, 149 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:49.559 our runners who were at the same event being able 150 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:50.480 to run a five k. 151 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:55.960 So you folks are the people who deserve help. They 152 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.200 should be at the front of the line, and ARC 153 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.039 is helping them get to the front of the line. 154 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:05.039 I just think it's incredible work that you have done. 155 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:07.639 You know, over many, many years. I've been familiar with 156 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.240 the over fifty years. To be really honest with you, 157 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:16.720 I go back to doctor Harold Turner from Newton, Massachusetts, 158 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:19.440 who was honored one year as the man it was 159 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:21.399 then called Man of the Year, Person of the Year. 160 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:28.399 He was a dentist, pediatric dentist for children with disabilities. 161 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.440 So he he introduced me to the ARC many many 162 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:32.759 years ago. And I know that there have been a 163 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:35.879 lot of other folks who have been great with with 164 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:37.960 the ARC. How can folks get in touch if they'd 165 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:40.320 like to help get more information? What's your best home? 166 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:44.960 Well, you know, obviously it's great the website, which is 167 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.559 any hyphen AARC dot organ. I'm glad you talked about 168 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:53.080 doctor Traynor because people like him who life his name. 169 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.440 Let me correct that his name is Harold Turner. To 170 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:56.320 you are any. 171 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:04.720 And those are really the heroes, people who you know, 172 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:09.039 identified these special populations, you know, decades before it became 173 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:12.440 more fashionable too. And my son, who has down cinem 174 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:14.279 is forty five years old, and he's the reason that 175 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.639 I do the work that I do because the world 176 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:19.519 that I envisioned for him didn't exist. And even I 177 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:25.480 can't probably could have predicted the incredible gains that people 178 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:28.799 with intellectual disabilities have made in the last four and 179 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:32.480 a half decades that I've witnessed this growth and opportunity. 180 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:35.360 Joey, thank you, Thank you for what you do for 181 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.480 your son, but also thank you for what you do 182 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.639 for the community. Again, that website is any all lowercase 183 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.279 any hyphen arc dot org archie. 184 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:48.000 Thanks Joe and you can sign me there. 185 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:50.840 And thank you Dan for amplifying our voices. 186 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:53.519 Thank you very much. My pleasure, my pleasure, my honor. 187 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:55.840 As a matter of fact, at eight fifteen, we're a 188 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.240 little bit after eight to fifteen, but we're going to 189 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.600 be talking with Bob Scanel Presidency, you know, the Boys 190 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:07.039 and Girls Club of Dorchester celebrating the their fiftieth anniversary 191 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.559 as well as talking about Rodman's ride. So we got 192 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:16.320 a very very uplifting segment coming up. The first segment 193 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.600 uplifting in a different sort of way, was uplifting and 194 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:23.519 showing what should be done for those who were amongst 195 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:27.840 us have the greatest battles to fight, but the Boys 196 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:30.039 and Girls Club they do a great job. And we'll 197 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:32.519 talk with Bob Scannel right after this break on Nightside. 198 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:36.159 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 199 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:39.480 night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 200 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:42.320 All right, as we mentioned, we're going to be talking 201 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.399 and we are talking right now with Bob Scanel, President 202 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:49.039 and CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester. 203 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.600 You folks have been doing this for fifty years in Dorchester. 204 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.080 Congratulations Bob, to you and everyone involved with the Boys 205 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:57.799 and Girls Clubs of Dorchester. 206 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:03.159 Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. And yeah, 207 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:05.279 we've been out it for a while now, and you know, 208 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:07.519 we're blessed to have a lot of friends in our corner, 209 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:12.320 as you know, supporting us the whole way. So we're 210 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.240 obviously very excited to be celebrating this big year and 211 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:18.480 we've got a lot of great things going on, as 212 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:19.240 we do every year. 213 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:21.960 I know my pal Jack Dougherty of College Hype is 214 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:25.320 a huge friend and supporter of the Boys and Girls 215 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.279 Club of Dorchester. And we also want to talk about 216 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.919 last weekend. You guys were very much involved in the 217 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:34.759 Robin Ride for Kids. They held their thirty fourth annual 218 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:39.759 event last weekend. That the event is in the past tense, 219 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:42.879 but it was a big success, as I understand it. 220 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:45.159 It was a great success. It was this past weekend. 221 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.360 And yes, Jack Dougherty, he's a legend, he's the best. 222 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.799 And yeah, I talk with him this afternoon. He's had 223 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:54.080 to say hello, by the way. 224 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.639 You're a wonderful man. And in fact, you and Jack 225 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.279 and Bill Brett were kind of to do a fundraiser 226 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:04.399 for us for one of our many projects. So you 227 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:06.519 guys are a great team. But Jack, Jack's awesome. 228 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:10.200 Yeah, he's a deep captain. Bock go ahead. 229 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:14.679 I'm sorry, it always says anyway, but believe it at 230 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:19.919 that he is. So this past weekend was the thirty 231 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:24.799 fourth year of the Rodman Ride for Kids, and we've 232 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.279 been fortunate. We go way back with the late, great 233 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.759 and wonderful Darn Rodman, who was the absolute best. He 234 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:36.320 founded the ride in nineteen ninety one, and I know, 235 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:39.120 like after this weekends it's up over one hundred and 236 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:44.759 fifty million dollars raised among the thirty forty five organizations 237 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:47.519 that partner with the ride. So obviously in the norm 238 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:51.720 enormous success and for us over all those years, it's 239 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:55.720 been a lifesaver for us to thicken fan to a 240 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:58.679 lot of the tough years. We're able to have our 241 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.080 friends rally and forward us and ride and sponsor and 242 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:05.759 make sure that we have funds we need to operate 243 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:08.960 every year. And you know, none better honestly than the 244 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:13.039 Myer Company team and the my family who for all 245 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.480 thirty four years have been there with us, not only 246 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.679 with the Rodman Ride, but all fifty years as a 247 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.039 founding family of our boys and Girls clubs. So it's 248 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:25.120 so amazing to them. They wound up a great team, 249 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.960 Dan Masters as a team captain, and you know, they 250 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:29.879 have a nice group of riders. They go out, they 251 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.200 take their fundraising serious, they have a fun day and 252 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.919 raising important funds for us. So it's pretty exceptional that 253 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.639 we have friends like that that have been with us 254 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:42.480 for fifty years. And in addition to that, all thirty 255 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:45.360 four years of the Rodman Ride. So it's quite an event. 256 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:50.320 Yeah. Now've done fifty years, so what's the next fifty 257 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:52.720 looking like? I mean, it's going to be bigger and better, 258 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:53.600 I assume correct. 259 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:57.279 That's always the way, and that's the way we think here. 260 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.559 And you know, we're blessed to have great teams here 261 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:03.279 with interance of our staff and board and the community 262 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:09.840 and our funders. So we currently operate three clubhouses in Dorchester. 263 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:13.080 But the really big news is that what a great 264 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:18.120 way to celebrate our fiftieth. We're working very hard the 265 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:21.519 raise the funds we need to build our fourth clubhouse, 266 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:26.480 which will be in partnership with our amazing friends at 267 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:30.080 the Martin Richard Foundation. So our two organizations have come 268 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.000 together and we've been at it for about six years 269 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:36.720 now with planning and designing a seventy five thousand square 270 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.960 foot facility. But it's so neat in the community and 271 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:43.559 I just commend our teams here and my hat goes 272 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:47.200 off to Bill Richard and Denise who work so hard 273 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:51.559 with us alongside us as great volunteers to make this happen. 274 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:55.440 And so together we designed this amazing facility. Its spectacular. 275 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:59.639 We can't wait to get it open. And you know, 276 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:02.440 we do very well. We're well along in the fundraising. 277 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:07.399 It's a seventy million dollar campaign and we've passed. Oh yeah, 278 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:09.799 we took on a lot. To your point, get yeah, 279 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:11.600 we're gonta. We're got a lot going on this coming year. 280 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:16.320 I knew that's what you're going to talk about. And again, 281 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:19.679 this is a this is a big project, a big, 282 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.320 big project, and Jack dolready has kept me abreast of that. 283 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:27.120 And of course working with the mountin Richards Foundation that 284 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:31.039 is just an incredible group of people and it's a 285 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:36.799 family and uh is the is the fundraising? Uh? Where 286 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:38.840 you need to be at this point? I use seventy 287 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:42.240 million dollars. That's that's a lot of money. I know. 288 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.399 Once in a while over the past several years, Bill, 289 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:46.200 Bill Rich and I we looked at each other and 290 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:48.200 just say, wow, we took on a lot. 291 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:48.440 Huh. 292 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:51.240 I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's just keep working and and 293 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:53.879 we're working very hot. And you know, we've we've we've 294 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:56.759 gone over the forty million dollars raised, so that that 295 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:01.200 that is amazing, that is really great. So so, but 296 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.440 we've we've got we've still got you know, We've still 297 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:05.799 got a Hilda climb. We make no bones about that. 298 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:09.559 So if you've raised forty and you're trying to get 299 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:12.519 to seventy, you're like fifty six percent of the way there. 300 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.599 So UH, if anyone's out there listening tonight who has 301 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.720 some extra money in their paycheck and they'd like to 302 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:22.400 help a great cause, how can they get in touch 303 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:22.799 with you? 304 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:26.680 Well they can. The best way is to go right 305 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.160 directly to our website. And you know, I feel like 306 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.480 I could give you those addresses, so yeah, I can look. 307 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:35.200 I'm looking at it right now, So go ahead and 308 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:40.480 make the make the pitch BGC go BGC Doorchester dot org. 309 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:43.799 Right, that's correct, yep. And when and when you go 310 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:45.920 to that site, you can look at, you know, all 311 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:50.039 our programs and opportunities to donate. You can also click 312 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:53.200 on a link to the uh the Fieldhouse, it's called 313 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:56.440 the Fieldhouse Plus that we're building and uh and that's 314 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.160 on our site under event So please take a look 315 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.359 at that. Love for for your audience to take a 316 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:03.680 look at that and see, you know, just what we're 317 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:06.599 talking about here and this is this is transformational for 318 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:09.559 children and families in Dorchester into out all of Boston. 319 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:13.920 So we couldn't be more excited. And and and again 320 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:15.880 we feel we feel great where we are. But we've 321 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:18.799 got we've got a ways to go. Uh you know, 322 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:22.359 we've got a site set on uh you know, the 323 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.920 next few large donations to get us moving forward with 324 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:28.759 the project, and we're quite confident that. But yeah, we 325 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:30.759 should do. We need all the friends we can get 326 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:33.319 for something like this. This is this is massive and 327 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:36.200 it's just very very important for the city of Boston. 328 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:42.039 All right, BGC for Boys and Girls Club BGC, Dorchester 329 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.160 dot org. Bob Scannel, thanks so much for joining us 330 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:48.480 tonight and uh, I'll see over Dorchester. Thank you so much. 331 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:51.599 My friend sounds great. Thanks very much, Dan, take care 332 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:51.799 of it. 333 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:54.119 We come back right after the news at the bottom 334 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:56.119 of the hour. We're going to talk about an auction 335 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:00.759 that is coming up this Saturday. It's called the Remarkable 336 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:04.759 Rarities Auction, and there are some remarkable opportunities. It's at 337 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:08.039 the Royal Sinesta Hotel in Boston. We're gonna be talking 338 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:11.559 with the executive vice president of our auction, Bobby Livingston. 339 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:15.880 So if you're into rare items, some of which you 340 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.559 might be able to get at less of a cost 341 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.400 than you might realize. You stick with us here on 342 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:24.480 WBZ Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZ ten thirty and 343 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:25.279 your AM dial. 344 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:30.000 You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z, 345 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:31.759 Boston's news radio. 346 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.079 You want to welcome Bobby Livingston. He's the executive vice 347 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:40.559 president of a company called Remarkable Rarities Auction and they 348 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:44.079 are having a live auction. Can people participate in this, 349 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:47.279 Bob remotely? Do they have to physically be at the 350 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:51.039 Royal Sinesta Hotel in Boston on Saturday, September twenty eighth. 351 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:55.720 Dan, They can register to bid online and watch the 352 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:58.279 auction stream at bit online, set up phone calls and 353 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:01.960 bid or hopefully show up because it's always an exciting 354 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:05.200 event at the Royal Semester. We do it once a year. 355 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.039 We're proudly Boston Auction House. 356 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:11.480 Okay, So I noticed a couple of things that I 357 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:13.839 want to ask about. One is the never before seen 358 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:17.720 where eight milimeters color film of the JFK Motorcade on 359 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:20.920 that faithful day in November twenty second, nineteen sixty three. 360 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:24.720 Where's this? Where's this film? Who shot the film? What 361 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:25.640 can you tell us about it? 362 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:27.319 Well? 363 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:30.680 There was a truck driver in Dallas named Dale Carpenter, 364 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:35.519 and he started filming on Lemon Avenue, which was about 365 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:38.799 a mile from Daley Plaza. And if you watch the film, 366 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:43.319 he just misses the President's car. The film starts, you 367 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:46.759 can see the Secret Service car just pulling out a frame. 368 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:49.920 So he shoots about forty seconds. But because he was 369 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:52.960 a truck driver, he knew exactly where the President was 370 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:54.759 going to head to the Trademark, So it goes up 371 00:20:54.759 --> 00:20:58.519 on the Stemens Freeway. So it's right after the President 372 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:01.519 is assassinated in Dealey Plaza. And if you remember the 373 00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:05.559 the Bruter film, you know, Missus Kennedy tries to get 374 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:08.720 out of the car and Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent, 375 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:11.880 jumps on, pushes her back in the car, and they 376 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:14.440 speed off into this tunnel. Well, the film we have 377 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:17.759 is like just maybe half a mile after they come 378 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:19.799 out of the out of the tunnel, so you can 379 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:22.960 clearly see Agent Hill still on the car. You can 380 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:27.400 see Missus Kennedy's pink pink suit, and they's speeding by 381 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:31.000 at eighty miles an hour. It's incredible, it's incredible footage. 382 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:34.480 Yeah, and she actually as I understand that from the 383 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:39.519 reports that I have read, and I talked many times 384 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:42.079 with Dave Powers, who was in the in the follow car. 385 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:48.599 Dave was President Kennedy's closest legislative or administrative aid for 386 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:51.039 his entire career in Congress, both in the House, in 387 00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:55.880 the Senate and at the White House day Powers of Charlestown. 388 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:01.119 I believe that Missus Kennedy actually was Trase trying to 389 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:03.759 get on the back of the car, because I don't 390 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:05.799 know how else to say this, that part of the 391 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:09.839 President's brain had had landed on the back of on 392 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:12.000 the back of that car, and that's why she was 393 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:14.799 not trying to get away. She was trying to basically 394 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:17.960 do what she could to try to save his life. 395 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:21.319 Obviously in that moment, I kind of imagine what could 396 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:25.400 have gone through her mind. You also have, in addition 397 00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:28.559 to that, you got a lot of documents and letters 398 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:32.720 signed by famous, I mean famous people from all the 399 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:37.759 way from the Revolutionary War through all of the nineteenth century. 400 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:40.960 The autographs of presidents which are which you know back 401 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:47.039