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Well I just want everybody to know we are starting a new segment here on NBC 24 Today
with help of course from Steve Reamy with Charles E. Boyk
Law Offices it's called Good News, Good People and of course welcome to the show Steve.
Welcome.
and you've got some people here with you this morning this segment has been long overdue
overdue
I know we've had a lot of good feedback from our viewers on doing something like this
so
so tell me a little bit about it. Ok, well we to try to do we just got to the point
point
Charles E. Boyk and us in the office we're just tired of hearing the
bad news that goes on in this city. So we said, you know let's do something
a little bit a positive and I've got two gentlemen with me George Merritt and Todd
and I'll just let you tell a little bit about what you guys have done this is a great
story.
Uh well we started uh athletic program in
an area of the city that hadn't had a program there for over 20 years.
We were both coaching in other areas
and before we both retired we wanted to start something back over in an area where we
grew up in
that was in sore need of something.
So it sounds like this is something that the kids are using
as an inspiration right? tell me a little bit about the program. Well it's a football program
around here and we
we service like uh almost 80-100 kids and
in from ages 7 to 14 and what we try to do is to keep the kids off of the street. Keep them doing something
constructive
we went into this neighbor hood that is Coach...
neighborhood they didn't have a team and uh picked up a team,
put together, went out and canned
and got all of the donations we could to put together like
about 50 thousand dollars so we can get the kids
equip them, get them uniforms and participate in this
every Saturday. So we went every Saturday when we take these 100 kids out there.
Yeah that's what I love about that don't you? That to me is a nomination that is a total
a winner on its own.
You have this HUGE trophy sitting here on our set this morning tell us about that.
Well we finally won the championship
this past year and uh but I also wanted to say that
that uh probably more proud of the kids that
we've been able the kids that are at various high schools. We are very
very proud of
the kids. Well and we are also proud of you right
Steve? What they've done is just amazing
really giving back to the community and helping these people all the kids and
the community rallied together something that's just great and if someone wants
to nominate someone Steve what do we do?
there are several ways you can do this. You can go to any of the car dealerships in the city,
you can go to good news good people dot com you can go online
submit your entry form or you can call our offices at 241.1395
good news good people dot com
and I know that we also have a link to it on our website
yes you do yes you do. Now these gentlemen
they were in this picture we just saw there just a few minutes ago was in your offices
at Charles E. Boyk right?
Yea and you gave them what? We gave them
a gift certificate that's the big thing
you do good things you get awarded, you get awarded for it do
great things. So if you submit your
entry we give the nominator and the recipient a $100 gift card.
Wonderful and so when someone someone nominates someone like did you know you're being
nominated?
No I didn't (laughter) it was really a surprise. Very, very humbling.
What do you want to tell some of those players at home who are watching this morning?
Well we would like to tell them keep up the good work, do your homework and make sure you're at school today.
(laughter) See that's the good message I think Steve
that really comes out of these kind of stories we're talking about good news
and good people. Good things that are happening right?
Just local things people are doing just great for the community and that's what
it's about.
Did you ever think gentlemen that you would be such a role model to these
kids?
Oh no we just we just doing what we're doing just trying to give back to the community.
That's exactly what we try to do and everything after that is a blessing. Yeah good words right?
I like it! Alright well Steve will be back again with more good news,
good people in the future so we need your nominations out there everybody because
there's a lot of good things going on.
Stay right there everybody we'll be right back.