The Lion's Roundtable (Guest: Leadership Tangipahoa)
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Todd Delaney:Serving Southeastern Hammond and the surrounding communities for over fifty years, we are KSLU Hammond. Discussing topics of interest to the university, Hammond, and the surrounding communities, this is the Lion's Roundtable. Now here's your host, doctor Amber Narro.
Amber Narro:Good day. Good day. This is Amber Narro on the Lion ninety point nine FM. I'm at the Roundtable. I've got three friends with me.
Amber Narro:I've got two new friends, sort of an old friend here with me as well with Benton. So glad to have y'all. Leadership Tangipahoa. Yes?
John Dunnington:Yeah. Yes. Thanks for having us.
Amber Narro:Awesome. Awesome. So first of all, what was your theme this month before we even get started?
Benton Thames:Healthcare. Healthcare. Healthcare. Yeah.
Amber Narro:Right up my alley. Love it. Love it. Love it. Okay.
Amber Narro:So what I'm gonna get you to do is introduce yourself. Tell me where you're from, who you're with, who your sponsor is for Leadership Tangipahoa, and then we'll get into all of the things that you guys do to represent this great parish and and bring this information back to you. So I'll start with you, John. John Donington, you're to my right.
John Dunnington:Yeah. Thanks for having me. First and foremost, this is a phenomenal facility. John Dunnington, I'm originally from the small town of Husser, Louisiana.
Amber Narro:Husser?
John Dunnington:And, yeah, we're pretty much well, now we're They
Amber Narro:got people out there?
Benton Thames:Yeah. They they have
John Dunnington:to pump electricity out there. Hands. We have, covey rods and, you know, Global Wildlife. We have some things. I'm with Tangipahoa Parish government.
John Dunnington:I'm the chief information officer, so I'm the one that, controls all the technology, and, that's a moving target.
Amber Narro:But Yeah.
John Dunnington:They are sponsoring me.
Amber Narro:For all of us, my friend.
John Dunnington:Oh, for sure. They're sponsoring me, and I am very grateful for the opportunity. It's been wonderful.
Amber Narro:Excellent. Angel. Angel here. Thank you
Angel Cortez:for having us. I am from the South Shore, and we moved here about twenty years ago. Cortez. Yes. Yes.
Angel Cortez:Angel Cortez.
Amber Narro:Very good.
Angel Cortez:We moved here about twenty years ago. Loving it. It's been very
Amber Narro:Educational to be part of this Leadership Tangipahoa thing. I'm sure.
Angel Cortez:Yes. Yes. It's definitely been rewarding as well. I'm here from the city of Panchatula. I'm the work in the mayor's court, the So, court yeah, the mayor has had sponsored me for this, and I've been so excited and appreciate the opportunity I've had to participate in Leadership Tangipahoa.
Amber Narro:Excellent. We're gonna chat with you a little bit more about what that entails over there at the city of Ponchatula. So I I need secrets. You need secrets. That's where I live.
Amber Narro:Speaking of Ponchatula, Benton.
Benton Thames:Yeah. Benton Thames. Originally from Springfield, so I am not from Tansabell Parish. I'm originally from Livingston Parish. But honored to have a business in Downtown Ponchatula.
Benton Thames:I have a State Farm agency there, and I I do a lot of things in town. I'm sponsored by Ponchatula Chamber of Commerce for this Leadership Tangipahoa program. I'm heavily involved with Ponchatula Strawberry Festival, Ponchatula Rotary, and I love all things Ponchatula. I just fell fell in love when I moved my business there nine years ago. I just fell in love with Ponchatula, and now I've fallen in love with all of Tangipahoa Parish now that I'm getting to explore it because I didn't know that much prior to Leadership Tangipahoa.
Amber Narro:Absolutely. And you're a been you're you're a come here, not a been here. Right?
Benton Thames:That's right.
Amber Narro:You came from Denham Springs, if I'm
Benton Thames:Yeah. Originally born and raised in Denham Springs. And then when I got out of the military, I moved to Springfield. And I was a little bit closer to Ponchantula, so just over the bridge, you know.
Amber Narro:Indeed. Indeed. So the reason I got you to say your name last is because Tims Tames, I hear it lots of different ways and I didn't know how you pronounced it yourself and I don't know if I've ever heard you say your name so that's why I went around and I was like, tell me your
Benton Thames:It's Tims like the river, like t I m s. And I made a trip to London.
Amber Narro:Are you English?
Benton Thames:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Amber Narro:Me too. Did you know that?
Benton Thames:I did not know that.
Amber Narro:My dad is from England.
Benton Thames:Wow.
Amber Narro:Yes. No way. Yeah. He's he is still he's still got his whole British citizenship and the whole thing. I'm supposed to do the dual thing.
Amber Narro:I haven't done it yet. Sorry.
Benton Thames:You should.
Amber Narro:I'm trying.
Benton Thames:I'm trying.
Amber Narro:Yeah. But yeah. So that's why I wanted you to pronounce it because I know what the River Thames I I've been on it.
Benton Thames:I asked all the residents when I went to London two years ago how they pronounce the river. Like, how do you pronounce that river right there? And they all said, Tim's. And I'm like, ugh. Okay.
Benton Thames:Everybody that's trying to correct me over here is wrong.
Amber Narro:Yep. They are. They are wrong. I'm here with you. You tell them to call me and I will back you up with that for sure.
Amber Narro:Indeed. Very good. So Leadership Tangipahoa this week y'all this time y'all went to health care. Yes?
Benton Thames:Yeah. Health care.
Amber Narro:And you know that's near and dear to my heart with North Oaks. And I I sit on the board of commissioners with North Oaks. Absolutely adore it. And also, you're big into Ponchatula, big into the chamber of commerce, gotta give you a shout out for all the help that y'all do for Southeastern and our honors program to make sure that we have a space at Shawrie Fest as well as several of the organizations on campus, several fraternities and sororities use that for a primary fundraiser for the year, and that has been awesome, and I have been just absolutely honored to be a part of that. So thank you and the Strawberry Festival Award for everything that y'all do to support the organizations here at Southeastern.
Amber Narro:We appreciate you.
Benton Thames:Yeah. Absolutely. It's an honor and a privilege. You know, our our primary role is to for community based fun, but we really are trying to help the farmers and educate people on the strawberry industry. My my favorite thing is the nonprofits like you guys, the honors program, and so many other.
Benton Thames:We've got, I believe, 47 nonprofits out there that we're helping out every year. Absolutely. Fundraiser.
Amber Narro:And it's our major fundraiser, by the way. And last time, we were able to send students to San Diego as well as Washington DC. This time I've already got some I'm working on Washington DC for next year again and students are starting to talk study abroad. So we're we're excited about this. So thank you for all that y'all do with that.
Amber Narro:Also too, I wanna make sure that we mention that this year the Charbet Festival hours are a little bit different because you talked about your mission just a second ago, that mission of supporting farmers, supporting nonprofits, you really had to kinda turn back to that and say, why do we exist when you were asking the question of whether you close early or not? Tell me a little bit about that because I I love this story.
Benton Thames:I mean, was kind
Amber Narro:of Mission driven.
Benton Thames:Yeah. I mean, it was a no brainer. You know? Whenever we say our primary goal is to help our nonprofits help our farmers be we wanna bring it back to being a family oriented event. And so when we really looked inside of ourselves and said, well, what happens past eight or 09:00 at night on the Strawberry Festival grounds?
Benton Thames:There's tons of music. The rides are still going on, but our nonprofit organizations are not really making a lot of money. The farmers are already sold out of strawberries and packed up and left for the day.
John Dunnington:That's in
Amber Narro:the evenings. During the day, we're doing great.
Benton Thames:Yeah. During the during the
Amber Narro:make that clear.
Benton Thames:Yeah. I'm talking about past 8PM. Right? Nobody's really making any money on that for the farmers and our nonprofit organizations. And and all of us as board members that are putting this thing on are just exhausted.
Benton Thames:And so it was sort of a no brainer to switch it and start closing at 08:00 instead of 10PM. And it used to stay over till eleven and I'm like, golly, we were all walking zombies staying open that late.
Amber Narro:I can imagine. I can imagine. Thank you for all the work that you do there. Speaking of Ponchatula, miss Angel, you just said you did something with the court. What what's what's happening with this?
Amber Narro:What do you do?
Angel Cortez:So what we do is we are a court of a a municipality. We serve the Panchatula City limits. We do not serve outside of the Panchatula City limits. We handle all of the traffic and misdemeanors that our officers in Panchatoula write, and we process them and then we bring them to court if they need to go to court, or we go ahead and handle their tickets or citations within house before we
Amber Narro:So it's you.
Angel Cortez:Yeah. And I do I do have an assistant, Michelle Roy. Yes. She she's very helpful, and she's been an asset to our department as well.
Amber Narro:Excellent. Excellent. And I gotta imagine, you know, growing. We're doing great things in the city. I live in Punch Panchatula as well, just outside the city limits, but I do get to enjoy all of Panchatula.
Amber Narro:And golly, the downtown area is just magnificent right now. The The new restaurants, the new facilities that are there, you can spend a day and not do everything. You can spend the weekend and not do everything and hardly leave a half mile radius.
Angel Cortez:Correct. We've had a lot of exciting new things come up lately. They got the Julian DuFresh Day coming up. They have Live After Five which is a free event, bring your Amazing. I'm out there.
Amber Narro:That just started a few years ago and that has breathed some fantastic life into a Friday night in Punch Noodle.
Benton Thames:Did you go see Rock and Dipsy?
Amber Narro:No. Oh. So I know, of course, I didn't. I don't know what was going on that night but I couldn't go. I was very upset.
Amber Narro:So I missed it.
Benton Thames:He puts on the show. Yeah.
Amber Narro:I know. I've seen him before with something. Yes.
Angel Cortez:The last few Don't rub it in. Containers we've had, we've definitely had some full houses, which is good too because then our businesses within the outskirts of that event, they all are getting business as well. It's bringing in business to our locals, and it's been it's been really fun for us.
Amber Narro:I don't care who you bring into that thing. It's the idea of the event of people getting together and really enjoying each other's company. And we can't do enough in this parish right now to to accommodate the needs of people wanting to get out and hang out, which I absolutely adore.
Angel Cortez:And most important, what's exciting, it's a family event. Bring your kids out there. Bring bring mom and dad. Bring grandparents. Bring everybody out there, you bring your chairs, your ice chest, and just have a good time.
Amber Narro:Absolutely. Love it. Thank y'all for doing that. I truly mean that. It just the spirit of community around that event is is unbelievable.
Amber Narro:Jake and I have gotten to go out a few times and walk around. Forgot our chairs one time. Won't do that again. But we we absolutely adore that event, and people come out, and it's so much fun to watch them bring out their tables and, you know, really almost treat it like a little catered event themselves. It was like potluck.
Amber Narro:Come on. Bring your mama. It's great.
Angel Cortez:That's right.
Benton Thames:Love it.
Angel Cortez:They've had somebody that came out with a table, a cake, and all the things for a birthday party. They had a full live birthday party at the Love After Five. That's right.
Amber Narro:Love it. Everybody was invited.
Angel Cortez:That's right.
Amber Narro:Everybody For sure. Thank y'all for putting that on. We appreciate you very much. John, y'all are traveling the parish at this point. You work for parish government, and you're getting to learn all the things.
Amber Narro:You are a bin here, though. Because you and I have some we've got some roots in common there in Laranja, Husser area, right?
John Dunnington:For sure. Yeah. It's interesting, know, when I started this program, full transparency, I I sort of said, well
Amber Narro:I know it all long.
John Dunnington:Think I know it all.
Amber Narro:Need to go?
John Dunnington:It only took a couple hours to realize that you don't really know it all and you don't know the people. And meeting the people is is the whole point for me. Like, just experiencing the passion that they have in all different verticals. I mean, some of these jobs don't pay the work that they're putting in and they do it because they truly have a passion for that.
Amber Narro:Right. Talk to me about some of those jobs.
John Dunnington:Well, it's healthcare or any of the other different days that we've had, dealing with children that have had really rough upbringings, these are individuals that get up and they wanna make a difference in someone's lives and, it really puts things in perspective whenever I'm complaining about my coffee order that's wrong. Yeah. So it's been, really enriching for me, throughout the process and healthcare in particular, it's fresh because we just went there and it's one of those things that a lot of us don't wanna think about until we have to think about it and it was really, really cool to see what's happening next door. I I live less than a mile from the hospital and I didn't realize the expansion and, the the careful thought that's put into the data you know, about bringing specialties here, you know, what does the parish need, it's really interesting to hear that versus going into an organization and they're talking about their bottom line. Indeed.
John Dunnington:It's cool.
Amber Narro:Indeed. And those are fun conversations, by the way. We really take a lot of time and put a lot of thought and effort into those things. And it's always the parish's needs. Right?
Amber Narro:For sure. And that's what's beautiful about that hospital being here in this area is that it really is directed at the needs of the parish and and not profit centered as much as it is making sure that we take care of our people.
John Dunnington:Yeah. It was it was also pleasure. It was also interesting to hear from Acadian. Acadian was there. That was fun.
John Dunnington:Yeah. Just just their history in Louisiana and still in Louisiana, but just how much they've grown but stayed true to their core values, and how they sort of navigate every different geographical area because not one town or city is the same and they have to be really dynamic in the way that they provide care because it's very different getting an ambulance to someone in the country versus having an ambulance staged at the hospital and going two miles away.
Amber Narro:Indeed. Ben, you said it was fun.
Benton Thames:It it was fun to listen to. It was so interesting. I had so many questions about Acadian. I wasn't sure how it worked. Right?
Benton Thames:Like, they're a private company, but they work for, you know, emergency calls through 911 and through the public entities. So I was super curious how that worked. Like, how often do they have contracts come up or do they have competitors, which they do. It's a private company. But we are lucky to have them.
Benton Thames:Let me tell you. Acadian does such a great service. If you look at their response times, how quickly they are, the training programs that Acadian offers are like first class. So the amount of first responders that they train, paramedics that they train through their own schools that they created, I mean, they're providing I don't know what the percentage is. I bet they provide 90% of the workforce in that industry.
Amber Narro:Excellent. Now I I have no doubt that you he's the question answer asker. Right? Like always you can guarantee that
Angel Cortez:you can come in for sure.
Benton Thames:Oh, come on.
Amber Narro:He's gonna figure out all the top places. Yeah. Absolutely. I
Benton Thames:would never.
Amber Narro:Indeed. No. I can imagine that when he comes in the room everybody's like, oh, okay. I gotta have my p's and q's. I need to be able to answer all the questions that are there.
Amber Narro:So pipes in, says what is this? Acadian, I haven't heard Leadership Tangipahoa talk about Acadian before.
Benton Thames:I don't know that they've ever came and spoke to us. They met us at Tangipahoa and I I can't the guy's name is beside me and I apologize. He was a great guy. He was a he was very well presented to us. And he spouted off some facts where I was like, I had no idea.
Benton Thames:Like, these three guys formed Acadian sitting at a McDonald's and similar to the walk on story, like, wrote the business plan out on a paper towel in McDonald's. Yeah.
Amber Narro:Didn't know that didn't know that at all so that's amazing. When you were talking about healthcare in this area and how important it is to this there's there's private industry as well. Right? We've got Acadia. We've got North Oaks.
Amber Narro:We've got lots of different clinics and and rural rural clinics as well. What did you learn about healthcare that was really helpful for you, Angel? What did you feel like you took away from that? And the pride as well as the peace that you might have that we do have healthcare in this area to take care of our people.
Angel Cortez:Well, it's definitely nice that I'd I've seen the North Oaks bus around town, and I just didn't realize what exactly their duties were, what what they covered. And we did learn that they, you know, they reach out to the rural areas and go to these individuals and give them services that they cannot come to, that they don't have access to either being transported to facilities to get help, and they can go out just like they will be out at the Strawberry Festival, which is probably a definitely a perk for them Yeah. To have something on-site a little bit more than a first aid tent. So they can help you know, they have two examine rooms in this bus and can service them in different capacities.
Amber Narro:That mobile unit, fantastic. And that depended on on donations from the public as well. So that that mobile unit was from the foundation at North Oaks. They put together
Benton Thames:Sure did.
Amber Narro:Funds to put that together, and there were some big donations from our community that made that happen and believed in that project. Been a big a big thing for public health as well. So, like, going out to areas where specific services are needed to make sure that those areas are taken care of and in a rural area like we were talking about, John, is super important.
John Dunnington:Yes, yes, and you know what's interesting too is just, I didn't think about this eight or nine years ago but I think through the lens of emergency management a lot now just at the parish and hearing these different companies have different ways to provide services or how they deal with disasters because they have to continue to roll the ambulance and the mobile center with North Oaks. It's just really cool to see other private companies invest in what happens when the sun is not shining.
Amber Narro:Indeed, indeed. So where else did you guys go besides I I know you had to go to North Oaks to see a lot of things there. Also, Acadian came to you. Where else did you go?
Benton Thames:We did Lolle Kempt Hospital. That's the last
Amber Narro:Oh, thank goodness.
Benton Thames:Yeah. That's the last charity hospital in the state of Louisiana.
Amber Narro:Stop. Yeah.
Benton Thames:And I had no idea that it was owned and operated by the LSU Health System but the very last charity hospital in the state.
Amber Narro:Excellent. Excellent. And serving our parish in wonderful ways with wonderful doctors, by the way, who who pull long hours to make sure that the people there have have services in that part of the parish. Not only important for the population that we need as far as charity, but also as location too, so, to be able to get to health care fast. So right there in the middle of the parish Yeah.
Amber Narro:Super important.
John Dunnington:Yeah. It's it's a vital asset. And what's interesting is is you don't get the sense of, oh, this is an old hospital. They're not moving. You see and hear them talking about construction.
John Dunnington:And if you're in the medical world, you're gonna know a physician that has walked through those doors. It is provided to be a training ground for so many different physicians because it's been there a long time.
Amber Narro:Indeed. Indeed.
John Dunnington:It's great. It's a great visit.
Benton Thames:You know a common theme that we heard all day amongst the healthcare system, especially when it comes to physicians and high level doctors, was it's very difficult for places like North Oaks or La La Camp to attract some of the best of the best so that we can then in turn provide the best health care available. And it was really cool for me. I had this epiphany yesterday about Leadership Tangipahoa coming all together. We did stuff like Hidden Treasures and Social Services Day, got to explore the parish. But how important it is for everything else to come together to attract people because these doctors I heard the hospital administration talk about losing the doctors to Houston and Dallas areas who can pay them much more money.
Benton Thames:So it's really important for us as a parish to have kind of all of the keys to success to attract good doctors because they're never gonna make what they probably would make in Dallas or Houston or Miami. And so I thought that was kind of a cool come together moment.
Amber Narro:Indeed. Got some training grounds going on around here for sure. Yeah. Indeed.
Angel Cortez:So kinda piggybacking off of what Benton said, what we've learned, and I think I can speak for all of us throughout this whole thing is everybody we've come to speak to and have had a chance to listen to, all are passionate about what they're doing. You know, there are several of them that's passionate about doing it because of the passion and not the money that they're making.
John Dunnington:For sure.
Angel Cortez:We have Pam we met with that was an LTAC that I didn't even know was Mhmm. Available to us, which just seems very good for the individuals that may need those services. And we had the Florida Parish Service I'm sorry. Let me see. What was it?
Angel Cortez:The The Florida Parish Human Services Authority Gotcha. Gotcha. For the behavioral health. That's another thing, that they are super passionate. He even said, you you don't do that for the money, you do it for the passion of helping And everybody we've spoken to, you can just see they're driven by passion to help people in the community.
Amber Narro:Excellent, excellent. When you are thinking about healthcare around here, did you learn some things about healthcare where you think you can send people now or your family or just going back to the city of Ponchatula, to Ponchatula chamber, to the parish government, do you think that you can provide that information
Angel Cortez:the people around the Absolutely, there's a lot of resources that, and I mean that's what I guess leadership is for, being able to network, find new resources, and connecting with new things that I think most of us, every time we go, half of us didn't even know these places existed or was an option for anybody and we definitely can share it and pass it along to other individuals that may need those services.
Amber Narro:When I haven't been here, John, I always ask the question, would you recommend this to even people who have lived here their entire lives?
John Dunnington:Oh, yeah. I'm I'm a walking, yeah, billboard because, you know, again, just to reiterate, I I I thought I knew and I may have known the road past this place, I may have seen the building, but until you meet the people on the inside and understand how it's working, you don't really know it and this is an opportunity to get an inside look. I mean, the way my brain works is just being a technology guy, even just looking at the technology in the different facilities. Before you got here, I scoped it out in this building.
Benton Thames:This place is awesome.
Amber Narro:It is
John Dunnington:pretty incredible. But the same thing happened at, at Lolly Kymp.
Todd Delaney:Like, just
John Dunnington:I I look at everything and just thinking about all of these different assets that we have and making sure that people know that they're in our backyard. Absolutely. And just even talking, to the director at PAM, like, he's from, Brookhaven, and he makes the drive every day. He loves our pairs. He's he's interested in meeting everyone.
John Dunnington:He he told me in the hallway, man, everyone I've talked to has just been nice, and I'm kinda not used to that. He's been in the industry for, I think he said, thirty years, and he's interacted with people all across the country, so I think that speaks volumes for our parish, and I think that's why people either come here and stay or they're born here and they don't leave.
Amber Narro:Absolutely. I always call Tangipahoa Parish a really nice we we keep we we jail in all the good people. Right? We make sure that you stay. We we warm you up.
Amber Narro:We make sure you make connections so
Angel Cortez:that you don't leave. We don't let them leave. That's right.
Amber Narro:We want our smart, good people to stay right in this area, and we want you to reproduce.
Benton Thames:Yep. So that's what we're we
Amber Narro:are we are growing and getting stronger by the day, and it's a lot because of our parish government and because of people like you who make sure that they fill up with smart, awesome people.
John Dunnington:Yeah. And I think just them talking about Ponchatula, it reminds me, you know, you you have a tendency when you have been somewhere for so long, you you miss the details. Mhmm. You know, we all travel on vacation and you look at every little detail. You kinda forget about those details around here, but I think Ponchatula, for example, has done a great job of bringing in the new but preserving the old because downtown's beautiful, but if you look at really old pictures, it still has that character from those old pictures.
John Dunnington:Indeed. And I think that's in our DNA here. We welcome innovation, but we also know our roots kinda thing. Mhmm. So love it.
John Dunnington:I would definitely recommend the program. I can't say it enough. Just explore it. They have a website. Apply.
John Dunnington:Beg whoever needs to be your sponsor because it's not something you're gonna regret.
Amber Narro:You want my job? Because I was about to say that. Absolutely. Visit the website. Go to Leadership Just Google it.
Amber Narro:You'll find it. Apply. And it takes a minute. Right? You gotta do a personal statement.
Amber Narro:You gotta get a couple of letters of recommendation. Your company needs to sponsor you. Cost is about a thousand dollars worth every penny. Yeah?
John Dunnington:For sure.
Amber Narro:Yeah. Yeah. And I think you also have to do a $100 investment to make sure you're gonna get on the bus and show up every every month. Right? And
Benton Thames:You won't not show up.
John Dunnington:It's it's, you
Benton Thames:know, that great.
Amber Narro:Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank y'all for coming and sharing a little bit Thank for
John Dunnington:having us.
Amber Narro:About your organizations Yes. Thank you. And your experience with leadership and encouraging people to do that. I've been interviewing people with Leadership Tangipahoa now for about eight years, eight or nine years. Nobody has ever said that they didn't wanna do that they wouldn't do it again, that they would absolutely sign up again.
Angel Cortez:So If we could do it a second time, we definitely would.
Benton Thames:Very And shout out to Nick Gagliano, our administrator and I'm not just, you know, sucking up. Nick does such a great job at making our days like like, you can tell how thoughtful he takes and makes our schedule so that it all kinda comes together at the end of the day. He does a really great job. I think he's a big part of the reason why the program is so wonderful.
John Dunnington:Well, and he does a great job also at even though he knows what we're about to see, he still has the level of excitement for us. Yeah. And I think that could be tough if you do this over and over. Right? So Very
Angel Cortez:good. Yeah. I think Tangipourism does a good job as well with that for them. They they did lunch for us. It was amazing.
Angel Cortez:We had a good time. Yeah. Always it's always a good time.
Amber Narro:Excellent. Look them up, y'all. Apply. You wanna do this even if you've been here for a long time. We got a couple that come here, that been here, and they all say go and take care of Leadership Tangipahoa.
Angel Cortez:It's your responsibility. Visit you will learn something new.
Amber Narro:Excellent. Thanks Angel. And thank you to all three of my guests, Deb and Witt Benton Thames, Angel Cortez, and John Donington sharing a little bit of information about Leadership Tangipahoa. Look forward to continuing these talks every month. You guys, congratulations on representing your parish and bringing all this information back to the people that that you represent as part of this program.
Amber Narro:And we appreciate y'all for continuing on and continuing to inform all of us about all things Change by Hope.
Benton Thames:Yeah. Thanks again. Thanks, Amber. Thank you.
Amber Narro:Thank you
Benton Thames:very much.
Amber Narro:And thank you for joining us here on Thursdays and Fridays at 09:00. I'm Amber Narro. We're at the Lion's Roundtable on ninety point nine FM, The Lion. Have a great day.
Todd Delaney:Thank you for joining us today. If you missed any part of the show, you can listen to the Lion's Roundtable on demand at our website, lionupradio.org. The podcast version is also available for download from Amazon, Google, Spotify, and TuneIn.
