Welcome to Great Day Live, everybody.
We are so excited. We just had to have
a preview show of the WHAS crusade for
children because it is such a big year.
If you haven't heard 70 years,
everything is going to be bigger than ever.
I'm with President and CEO Don Lee,
Chief Jason Meiman,
Assistant Chief Joseph Bowman from PRP.
They're busy raising money.
I'm surprised you guys didn't show up
with cans and fire trucks and everything.
But Don, we're so excited to have you
here and to talk about this because.
There is just this feeling of excitement,
and I know you feel it too.
Absolutely.
We are thrilled to be out here at Paris
Town because that's where we're going to
have a lot of our excitement this year.
And the crusade staff has worked so hard
to come up with so many new ideas that we
can try this year to just make it really
festive because we are back downtown
and we are so excited to be back home.
After being away due to pandemic regulations,
So it's going to be a fabulous year.
We have ideas like our raffle that
we're going to talk about and the
show that's going to be at Paris Town
Saturday night is beyond fabulous
on. I'm so excited about this venue
because I mean this whole area,
it's so super cool.
There's a different energy and a vibe here.
That variety show this year
is going to be June the 3rd.
And I know you guys want it always.
You always top the previous years.
What are you looking
forward to about that show?
Just really,
I love seeing the Miracle Dancers.
That's always a favorite of mine.
It never fails, but to have.
People like Lance Burton and the crashers,
it's going to make it
extra special this year,
but of course we'll also have firefighters
there that night because we can't,
we can't do what we do without
firefighters. Feel
like you guys have already been out there.
I mean this is a year long thing.
You just don't wait till the
week before and and do things.
I mean what has the mood?
And I feel like you guys are
so super competitive at PRP.
You set the bar really high every year.
Yes ma'am. So the so the mood's great.
We started again we we we do it all
year long right and we we just did
a fishing tournament at Dentals
pay Lake raised $5500 in in that
day and you know and we're starting
our our drivethrough collections.
You will start seeing the firefighters
across all of Kentucky and Southern
Indiana out on the streets to start
doing their roadblocks and drive
through collections and even start
their doortodoor processes hopefully.
Well Chief, I know you're excited about
this too and especially about are you
looking forward to the variety show,
anybody you're excited to see?
Just just everybody really.
I'm just looking forward to
the the atmosphere I'm playing,
praying for good beautiful weather
and and it'll be a good time.
I feel like year after year,
this becomes a family reunion
for such an incredible cause.
I kind of described kind of the
mood that you all already have.
Just saying we're doing
this for the crusade.
What's this idea?
How do we raise money?
So with it being the 70th,
we're bringing back a lot of
old school PRP this year. So.
Oh, wow, tell me what that is.
I can't really tell you right now.
There's there's some secrets out there.
But I will throw a challenge out
to the Pleasure Ridge Park Fire
Protection District community.
Which includes Valley Station,
Valley Village, Dixie,
Dixie S Dixie, Dixie, Suburban Lake,
Dreamland, all those communities.
I'm throwing a challenge out there
to them that we are going to collect
$200,000 this year at Pleasure Ridge Park.
So we're going to need their help.
We're going to need all of
our volunteers help.
We are going to do a lot of exciting
things at Pleasure Ridge Park.
We have a kickoff this Saturday
where we're going to be starting
at our newly renovated fire station
and parading down to our training
center where we're going to have
an announcement of several other
festivities that we're going to have
throughout the throughout the crusade season.
And and we're excited.
The atmosphere is great at
Pleasure Ridge Park.
It is and I love it when you
all throw out a challenge.
I mean, right, because I feel
like when PRP sets the challenge,
it's like everybody be it better
be on notice to to bring it.
But I mean that's the spirit.
Right there, Don.
It really is absolutely.
And it all started
with PRP, with the fire involvement,
because in 1956 Chief Ernie Bowler was
the one that came on the crusade and
challenged all the other fire departments.
So here we're having yet another challenge
from a Fire Chief from PRP and it's
going to go down in history as being
when another one of our great years.
Like we got to throw
challenges out the whole show.
Now who else should we challenge?
Dog, Who else should we challenge?
We need to mention this because there
is so many different ways that I love,
like all the creative ways
that you all have to give.
Do you all want a new kitchen?
Right, Do you want a new
GE Appliances kitchen?
Here is your chance. And who
doesn't want a new kitchen?
$70.00 Donation to The Crusade
and you have a chance to have
a whole new kitchen suite or
second prizes Washer and dryer.
Third is the ice maker.
So win, win, win $70.00 to enter.
Here is the catch that I love so much is
that there's only so many entries that
you guys are going to accept, right?
So I mean, I feel like your chances
are pretty big of winning. Chances
are good no more than 1000
tickets and we are getting close.
So people want to, we want to
buy now because we hope to be
sold out before crusade time. We
hope so. I want to make sure that people
know about like all the fun things that
will be happening here throughout the hour.
We're going to have performances
from Jackson Snelling coming up.
The Boogie Down crew is here
by Boogie Down Crew.
We have like a whole live
audience like here today.
That's been super cool,
but we're also kind of going to gear
everybody up because what else is going
to happen here on June the 3rd is kind of,
well, I'm calling it the pre party.
You like the pre party.
We're going to have like a pre party
before the big show here at Paris Town.
And what's going to happen there?
Well, we're
going to have our remote location here
where people can come and make donations
and bring the funds that they've collected.
We'll have a lot of lemonade stand kids.
And I will tell you that it's always
heartwarming when you see these kids
who've worked hard to help other kids.
So they'll be out here, We'll have clowns,
we'll have face painters.
There's going to be magic out here to
to warm you up for the magic inside.
So it is just going to be a
fun and festive afternoon.
It sure is. I feel like already
the excitement is building.
Get your raffle ticket now.
That's how you can get started.
You heard the challenge,
so go jump into that challenge as well.
But it's going to be a great,
great show, but also so many
ways to give back to give.
You can do it right now all you have
to do is go to WHAS crusade.org.
Thank you all so much.