More than 40 years ago, Trish Woodward and Nestor Aparicio performed in a childhood version of “Oliver” at Colgate Elementary. She returns to “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” at Costas Inn to update us on the incredible work of her Camp Opportunity, which provides a summer experience for abused children to see nature and find care and make friends.
Trish Woodward, a childhood friend of Nestor Aparicio, discusses her role at Camp Opportunity, which provides a traditional overnight summer camp experience for children aged 8-11 who have experienced abuse and neglect. The camp, located in Harford County, offers activities like swimming, hiking, and pickleball, and pairs each child with a counselor. Last year, they doubled their impact by adding a second week, but funding remains a challenge. Trish emphasizes the importance of donations and community support. Upcoming events include a pickleball tournament on April 26 to raise funds. Nestor highlights various other community-focused events and interviews planned for the week.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Camp Opportunity, child abuse prevention, summer camp, Harford County, traditional camp, donations needed, fundraising events, pickleball tournament, child resilience, emotional support, community involvement, volunteer opportunities, financial support, child welfare, summer activities
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Trish Woodward
Nestor Aparicio 00:02
Welcome home. We are, W, N, S, T, A of 1570, tasks, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive the bow tie underneath the me should say, so I have decided to close down things here with an old friend. We’re cost us in it’s all brought to you by friends at the Maryland lottery in the magic eight ball. It is a cup of soup or bowl. In my case, it’s Marilyn crab here at Costas. On Tuesday, we’re going to be at Fay Lee’s probably going to get the shrimp salad down there, to be honest with you. On Wednesday, we’re going to be at Cocos, and that means coconut shrimp. Thursday, we’re going to be at State Fair in Catonsville, probably chicken and waffles, probably, I thought the shrimp and grits. And then on Friday, we’re going to be Cooper’s north. That means gumbo. And probably the ahi tuna rap. But all of it brought to you by Friends the Maryland lottery. I’ll have magic eight balls scratch offs to give away. I have saved the best for last year on day one, my friend Trish Ward is, is a friend of life. We were in Oliver together in 1982
01:01
I’m gonna, yeah, yeah. So
Nestor Aparicio 01:03
she just turned 21 and the weird part is, she was, like, so much younger than me in 1982 and now we’re, like, we’re both old parents and how long they’ve been married and all that. She runs thing called Camp opportunity. She takes care of children, and from my literally, my name your Colgate side of you, Eastwood side. Which side were you? Eastwood? Not my neighborhood, the enemy. Eastwood over there with John Allen and all those people over there in the but that you were a Colgate high person. You’re a little younger than me. We wound up in this beautiful presentation of Oliver Twist that a beautiful man named LEM Henson and Jack Delaney ran 43 years ago. Now she and I, we’re in a video together with remember the umbrellas we spawned during I do they were wheels, yes, and I was, as you can well imagine, the Artful Dodger. So it was a long, long time Fagan’s gang. Well, you did? You have all the black stuff on your face? Yeah? Dirty kids. We had to look dirty. Yeah, dirty kids on the streets of London, and I was a boy, and I had to you were never a boy, as far as I was even before all this, he, she, they, you were always a girl. Camp opportunities here. She’s been my friend a long time. He sort of reunited last year. I’m shocked at how many mutual Facebook friends we have, like Gigi Causey and so my life for pals. You knew you Yeah, as not the little younger sister, but as you know, like somebody that’s really doing something nice in the community here, talking about camp opportunity year two. Because, you know, I really love you, if I invite you back to second year,
Trish Woodward 02:41
yeah, well, I’m happy to be back. Thank you for having me. So yeah, Camp opportunity, we provide a traditional overnight summer camp experience for kids ages eight to 11 who’ve experienced abuse and neglect, and we target the areas of Baltimore City and Baltimore County, but we do take kids from around the state, and so they come to camp. Our camp is in Harford County.
Nestor Aparicio 03:06
It’s a regular camp in the woods. It’s never thinking about it, right? Literally, it is
Trish Woodward 03:11
a traditional overnight summer camp experience. They go swimming, they go hiking. There’s games, there’s all you know, basketball, if you’re a camp person, you know the game Gaga. This year we’re gonna have pickleball. We’re gonna add some pickleball courts. They learn to play chess. These kids
Nestor Aparicio 03:28
are old enough to play pickleball. Oh, they they’re gonna love it. Pickleballs for old people. They’re gonna
Trish Woodward 03:32
love it. They are like me, yeah? So, um, yeah, so, and last year you wanted me to tell you, we we doubled our impact last year. Our sweet spot is normally like 30 kids a week because we do the one on one pair. How many weeks we’re doing this? We’re so we did two last year. It’s really expensive. The kids come for free. We provide transportation, so it’s at no cost to them or their families. And so it is expensive for us to run. We rely on donations and small grants that we get from from certain foundations around the area. We are at this transitional point where we are trying to grow and increase our impact. Last year was the first year in over 38 years that we actually were able to provide a second week of camp to get
Nestor Aparicio 04:20
Wow, 37 years of one, and now you’re the two. Now we’re at two doubled the last year. Yeah, we did. We did. So get your headset right now. Keep farting with it, and I’m falling back. And that’s all right, all right, because you’re small. All right, tiny people from Dundalk. So, yeah, I always the inspiration for the start of this. I always like to say, what’s a nice girl from Colgate who I grew up with and we saw, gave me poverty. I don’t know how to describe it as a kid, you know, we I never wanted for a meal or for things, but I definitely went to other friends of mine in the neighborhood whose family was renting. Family maybe didn’t have a job, working nights. Yeah, didn’t have the same kind of furniture in their houses. Didn’t have things in their basements. Think I’m just thinking about, yeah, mutual and, you know, we grew up in that environment. What? How did you make this transition from East Side Baltimore person to do good or Trish? So,
Trish Woodward 05:16
I mean, I actually spent a lot of time in my career in the for profit world and private equity, okay? And I just woke up one day. It was on my birthday in 2017 and I was like, I don’t want to do this anymore. Okay, back to and I did a lot of volunteering. So I decided that I wanted to get into and, you know, I have my degree in education, I wanted to do things with kids. Wanted to have an impact on kids, and primarily kids, you know that that are that need, that need us. And, yeah, so I that that’s how I got, got into it. I found, did you
Nestor Aparicio 05:48
volunteer in some other place to figure this out first, or whatever? I mean,
Trish Woodward 05:51
I was always a volunteer with different organizations, and primarily, you know, with a child welfare focus. So, you know, one of my good friends, Jen runs a really awesome I was telling you about it, organization called Empower for life. They provide programming that goes into homeless shelters and a lot more. So, yeah, always, you know, having my my foot in the door with with other nonprofits. What kind of teacher were you I taught early childhood. I only taught for like, a year, okay? And then I was like, I had my daughter, and then I was like, I’m gonna take this time to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life
Nestor Aparicio 06:29
well. And I think finding this, this opportunity to help other people. And you say you woke up one day eight years ago now, yeah, 2017
Trish Woodward 06:37
Yeah, yeah. I mean, and I didn’t start with camp until 2023, I was with another organization that also works with children who’ve experienced abuse and neglect, called Maryland Casa Association. Okay, so I was there for three years, two and a half years and and then I saw this opportunity pop up. They were at this transition, you know, point where they wanted to grow and double, you know, just, you know, expand their impact. So I jumped on board. So I was one of their first executive directors. They had another executive director before me that sort of got the organization ready as, like a business, you know, like, just sort of setting things up for so I sort of came in and made some more changes with software and technologies, and then just trying to grow our impact and and just let people know we’re here, so that you know, because we really rely on our donors to make our programs run. And I’m trying to break into, you know, government grants. We were able to get a one time grant last year, which afforded us that second week of camp with Baltimore City and Muncie. But that was a one time grant. They were using up some leftover COVID funds, so they needed to be used by the end of last year. So yeah, so that. So now, you know, I’m writing grants. There’s lots of applications. There’s one due tomorrow by 3pm with the Maryland Department of Health, fingers
Nestor Aparicio 08:02
crossed. Well, this is one of these things where Trump’s coming here, trying to gut everything and everybody, and, you know, like all of this, yeah, don’t get me started, especially in Dundalk, right? Yeah. Johnny Ray selling, to say, but the notion of how many good people we have to do things like this, and people to write checks. And then there’s the time spent. And then there are these children, in a general sense that I want you to talk about. What kind of kids these are. I had Chris dipne Ryan here a minute ago about for my city, and he’s always thinking, put kids to work. Put kids to work. He’s like, our kids are a little younger than that, and our kids really on the fringe of this could go either way. For an eight or nine or 10 year old kid that’s been abused, right, and you’re trying to intervene in a way and really make a different kind of impact. For kids that think a squirrel is a farm animal right from the city, you don’t know, you know, yeah? Like you just don’t know. And you’re trying to open their minds, but also put them on a pathway of healing. For exactly not most of these kids, all of these kids, have had things that we don’t even want to talk about, we can’t talk about we would
Trish Woodward 09:10
we couldn’t talk about, right? Yeah, no. I mean our kids, you know, like I said, we do target the kids from Baltimore City and Baltimore County. All of the kids are referred to us. So if you think a social worker or a guidance counselor in a school, they, you know, I reach out to them. They reach out to me, and they refer a child. And, you
Nestor Aparicio 09:28
know, you find the right ones once summer comes, right, yeah, right, yeah.
Trish Woodward 09:33
And, and it’s, it’s just really a wonderful program. The kids come back to three, sometimes four years in a row depending on age and grade. So we really get them at this, this critical time in their in their lives, and we’re working with them to just build life skills, to build resiliency. You know, to you know, we’re teaching them you know how to handle their emotions. You know, like their emotions are real. And how do you, how do you, um. And deal with those what’s the right way, you know, to anger, disappointment, all of that, right? It gets, you know, there so and then also, we’re, we’re just loving them. Have fun. Just come to camp and have fun. And they have their, they have their he runs the joint. Oh, nice. They have their they’re paired with their very own counselor for the week, which, as far as I know, and other folks on staff, I don’t think there’s another camp that does this. So they get paired one to one. They have their own counselor for the week, and that counselor’s job is just make sure they’re having fun and they feel safe, and that’s it, and then the rest and they really build a really awesome bond with them that last to the next summer, and then we the
Nestor Aparicio 10:44
30 kids, yeah, counselors, they’re a week, right? Overnight, sleeping in the woods, all deal, right? Yeah, Harford County, right, is where we’re doing this. Yeah? So kids scared when they come out or they
Trish Woodward 10:59
so the first day is always, you know, the toughest, because especially for the new campers, they don’t know what to expect. They’re away from home. Cell phones aren’t allowed, and so, yeah, everybody’s a little it’s looking forward to it, right? But they’re nervous. They’re nervous. I asked my kid,
Nestor Aparicio 11:17
when you were here last year if you had a good time at camp, and 25 years later, I sent him two camps, two summers, all summer, yeah, I sent, you know, sent him out. Oh, yeah, he went away for, like, yeah, eight weeks for two summers, late middle school, early, you know, like, maybe he was 12, 1314, in that range, yeah, he comes back 30 years later, and he said, I love those summers, you know, like, he’s like, I love, you know, made friends, did all that, all these years later, but I never, I’m for Colgate. We didn’t go to camp.
Trish Woodward 11:52
I went to Girl Scout camp, so I got to do that. But I went
Nestor Aparicio 11:54
up to Colgate Elementary, and I played Stratego dodge, dodgeball is what I played, you know? Yeah,
Trish Woodward 12:03
yeah, no. I mean, it really is, like, camp. Summer. Camp is a powerful experience. It creates those, like, core memories that, like, we’ve had campers. I had a camper reach out to me last fall that he’s now in his 30s, and he’s like, I still remember, like, I still remember his childhood wasn’t amazing, right, but he remembers the happiness and the joy that he had coming to 38
Nestor Aparicio 12:29
years have been doing this. So, yeah, so you have, you have alumni that’s, yeah, our age, right, literally, right, yeah,
Trish Woodward 12:37
yeah. And camp was born in Dundalk. Well, all
Nestor Aparicio 12:41
good things are like Costas in Mr. Costas came up here. Trish is here. She is camp opportunity. She is my childhood friend, paddles and pinwheels rally for prevention of pickleball tournament. It’s Saturday, April 26 here at the pickleball house, that is a 1330 innovation. Where the hell is innovation Street?
Trish Woodward 13:00
It’s like Middle River that you know, 43 White Marsh, Middle River, if you ever gone down 43
Nestor Aparicio 13:05
ever innovate in Middle River? Dundalk, pickleball house, proceeds benefit, Camp opportunity, supporting children impacted by abuse and neglect. Matches for all levels delicious food and drinks. Included prizes for top teams and community and fun for great cause, serving aces and building dreams. I’m playing pickleball. I’m a tennis player and camp opportunity.org What is camp opportunity on a global thing? It’s just a local organization, right? It sounds like something that should be everywhere, like it sounds like a national organ. It’s not the Maryland or the Baltimore camp opportunity, but, but it’s been going, but this is, this is a local group. It is. It’s local, yep. Well, you wouldn’t know that from the name, you know, just straight away, April is child abuse prevention month. I did not know that. So that, now that I know that, I’m left to do something in April, yeah, to go on though, doing all that.
Trish Woodward 13:55
And pinwheels are the, the symbol for happy childhood. So that’s the the blue pinwheels is sort of the, the symbol for child abuse prevention. Month. When
Nestor Aparicio 14:04
I was a boy, I had a pinwheel that flickered, that had, like the little like lights. I got it at the at the circus, so I had, I had a flickering, yeah, lighted pinwheel. When I was I thought about a pinwheel a month, yeah, that’s happiness. For That’s happiness. Well, I’m trying to learn all of this stuff here. Yeah,
Trish Woodward 14:23
8and then we’ll also be in Annapolis on April 6, giving out pinwheels to all our constituents down there on the last I mean, you do your
Nestor Aparicio 14:33
thing in the summer with the kids. These are fundraisers and events along the way. How many on a year this camp opportunity do?
Trish Woodward 14:39
So we do a one in the spring and one in the fall. In the fall, we have what we call shining stars, and that’s at the in what’s the the BMI, Baltimore Industrial Museum,
Nestor Aparicio 14:49
Museum of industry. Thank you. Yeah, I’ve been there, yeah,
Trish Woodward 14:53
yeah. There for it’s a good event. We sort of make it like a fancy bull roast. So. Okay, right? So it’s, it’s, it’s fun. We have wheels and lots of lots of things to gamble and and bet on. Alright?
Nestor Aparicio 15:07
And look, it’s a good Dundalk girl, I’m gonna give you that being a Colgate girl. Trish from Camp opportunity, Eastwood, Colgate Nestor,
Trish Woodward 15:15
I went to Colgate, but lived in Eastwood.
Nestor Aparicio 15:18
Why? Because you they, we imported you. We, yeah, they shut us down. We, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don’t want to get into immigration and North Point Boulevard, but you know, you’re killing me today for camp opportunity, doing these things and doing these, doing fundraisers a couple times a year. These things are these. This is the lifeblood of every charity, community organizations. I always say, like, get out in front of these things couple times a year to raise dough and putting together a thing, like a pic. Like, I’m not a pickleball guy, but even I would do this and support this for you, coming up with ideas and fundraisers, stuff like that, and people participating. What will people find that the pickleball tournament here?
Trish Woodward 16:03
So I think they have eight courts. We’re hoping to get at least 50 teams registered. And yeah, they’re just, and there’s different levels. I don’t play pickleball either. I’m gonna learn this month. But yeah, there’s different levels tennis for softies who want to play doubles, I mean, and then yeah, so there’s, like, yeah, they have different matches and levels and, you know, mail, whatever you do, oh no. And then we’re gonna have food and drink. So, like, and games. So if you don’t want to play and you just want to come and support, you can show up and and have some food and drink. I’ll play.
Nestor Aparicio 16:34
If you play, yeah,
Trish Woodward 16:35
I’ll play. I’m definitely
Nestor Aparicio 16:37
playing that. Did I say that on the right? And I’m gonna hold you to it. Now, I’m so afraid of hurting my back with you know, like getting ultra competitive on the pickleball swing and all that. Tricia here camp opportunity is a is a great thing for young people here. We learned about it last year, bringing it back again this year, a couple Super Bowls here, all week long. We’re Costas today on behalf of the Maryland lottery, our friends at wise markets. We’re gonna be doing this all week long, telling stories like my childhood French Trish, who’s put this thing together, and trying to help kids, when? When’s the big weeks in our for county? When? So they’re
Trish Woodward 17:09
in July. They’re like, two weeks in a row, the middle of July in this there’s
Nestor Aparicio 17:13
no mosquitoes at this camp, right? Probably, God, I hate mosquitoes.
Trish Woodward 17:18
Who likes mosquitoes?
Nestor Aparicio 17:22
My wife is outdoorsy. You know what I mean? She likes hiking, yeah, and, like, we get a little sideways on it, because I’m, like, I’m not walking in the woods. It’s just not what I’m not. You know where I’m from? I’m from Colgate, I don’t I’m from the city. I don’t go to the woods, so like, this whole camping thing while I’m pimping it for you, it’s not like that appealing to me to be out in the woods with mosquitoes and stuff like that. So my wife’s always trying to get me to do outdoor stuff or camping stuff, and I’m like, I camped in a prowler trailer, you know, Dundalk style right now, with the commode, you clean it out up, yeah, Morris Meadows up in Pennsylvania, drive up for the weekend, and even then mosquitoes, yeah,
Trish Woodward 18:13
comes with part of camp. It is, it is
Nestor Aparicio 18:17
you provide any, like spray or de, ya know,
Trish Woodward 18:20
they have all that. Yeah, we provide everything for the kids. They don’t have to bring anything, and we’ve had that happen before. What do
Nestor Aparicio 18:25
they get to do all summer? What are you doing at your camp? What are they crafts?
Trish Woodward 18:29
There’s crafts, there’s campfires, singing, songs, s’mores, they get to, so they sleep in cabins, but one night of the week, as long as the weather cooperates, they get to sleep in a tent. So we have,
Nestor Aparicio 18:40
you know, they get to, yeah, lucky them. Yeah, no.
Trish Woodward 18:43
And they love it. They look forward
Nestor Aparicio 18:45
to it. This goes into my anti outdoor thing, you know. But the biggest thing they like there’s no bears in Harford County. They’re probably No, don’t say that. No, I’m not going to
Trish Woodward 18:59
bear. Yeah, no, but swimming is the, is the favorite activity. We have an Olympic sized swimming pool, and they love their it’s hot as July, yeah, yeah, no. So that’s, that’s the big
Nestor Aparicio 19:11
are you doing two two weeks this year? We’re not. No, we’re trying to fund.
Trish Woodward 19:13
We are doing two weeks. We are committed to two weeks. But, yeah, we need to raise the funds. We need to raise the we’re gonna get
Nestor Aparicio 19:21
another fundraiser go. We get the pickleball tournament going on april 26 for camp opportunity. Trish is here, of Dundalk now, of Perry Hall, doing good work with with young kids really impacted by abuse and neglect. You know, I was never certainly in that category. And I can’t say in Colgate, you’re from Eastwood. You might be the only person I ever know that ever went to camp anywhere. You said you did a camp when you were a kid. Camps weren’t like, yeah, they didn’t come to my neighborhood. And you know, as I get older, I am, some years they’ve called me to give a speech at the Summer broadcasting camp. So there’s broadcasting camps, there’s. All you know, there were softball, tennis camps, football camps, all that thinking nobody ever offered me a chance to do anything camping wise as a kid. Maybe that’s why I don’t like the woods. I don’t know. Yeah, maybe somebody should have taken me out in the woods. I wasn’t Cub Scout. I spent one night in the woods. I was at Elk next state park, yes, yeah, that’s not hard for cats. The next one up, right? But as a Cub Scout with Jeffrey Deere and his dad, we slept in the woods in 1978
Trish Woodward 20:27
and a 10 in a tent. Nice. It was
Nestor Aparicio 20:31
kind of like that Flintstones episode with Fred and Barney. Remember when they took the Cub Scouts, they would float down the river? Yeah, yeah, it was, I think it rained that night. I think I saw my first Salamander. So you making me think of my core.
Trish Woodward 20:47
Memories are coming back. She
Nestor Aparicio 20:50
sounds like my elementary school teacher, because she probably is. Trish is here for camp opportunity. Help tell me how they can help you out, besides writing your check, coming to the pickleball tournament, yeah.
Trish Woodward 20:58
I mean, go to Camp opportunity.org, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Obviously, you know, financial donations help, but you can volunteer. You can like us on all our social media. We’re on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn, always looking that’s a great way to keep up with us. And then there’s also on our website. You can subscribe to our newsletters. We don’t send out a ton, so you don’t to worry about getting junk email. Probably one a month. She will not spam you. No, there’s no space. Yeah, we actually sent out, I sent out a newsletter today, and it was full of lots of great information, like that, the pickleball tournament and pinwheels for prevention and our impact from last year. So yeah, and then also, we have a our annual meeting coming up next Thursday, on the 13th of February, and that is virtual. So if you wanted to sign up and learn more about what we’re doing, you can attend our virtual annual meeting. It’s at 10am
Nestor Aparicio 21:56
well, Trish and I were in Oliver together 43 years ago at Colgan Elementary, just gonna be that long ago right now. You were like a little girl, and I was like a little boy. And look at, you know, all these years later, but she is, uh, she’s got me into camp opportunity here. And the thing, if you’ve done nothing in the last 20 minutes here, you’ve made me remember that I camped one time at Elk next state park. Yeah, I visited my son every summer that he was at the camp up in Western and all I remember was like the crafts and the sports and just a bunch of kids that stunk from being in the woods for eight weeks, and the tans that they had from being out in the sun and the mosquito bites that they had. And and all I keep thinking about is all, like, I meatballs is one of my all time favorite movies. Like, all time favorite movies. Yeah, and I’m thinking I missed out on that, you know what I mean, like, because I was not as privileged and growing up in Colgate, yeah, that I didn’t get to do all of that. Yes, chase girls at Skateland, which wasn’t a bad thing to do, fine, you know? I mean, that’s but there are some that going away and having that meatballs, yeah, we are the CIT so pity us, yeah? I mean, that kind of thing. So I there is a party of camping in the summer that has romance, you know, that has a romantic feeling for me that I because I never did it, yeah, I never went away, yeah, yeah. They love it. Kids are getting to do Yeah? And
Trish Woodward 23:21
the ones that come back for, like, the second, third or fourth year, like they are pumped. They’re, you know, already counting. They know
Nestor Aparicio 23:28
about the mosquitoes ahead of time. Yeah, they know. They know to bring their deed. They know what is their favorite part. When they say that to you, the kids that come back every year, what do they love the most? Swimming. Now, okay, it’s just swimming. And, I mean, some
Trish Woodward 23:41
of them will say that the arts and crafts. But mostly the majority hands down, it’s the swimming. They love this. So
Nestor Aparicio 23:47
what is like when I went camping with my my my step brother, we would just wind up in the pool all day? Yeah. I mean, like, it’s summertime, right? And
Trish Woodward 23:54
one of the other things I want to mention that, you know, the kids would that that come, especially the ones coming for the first time, are meal times. We have, you know, three meals a day and snacks, and we eat family style. And for a lot of these kids, they don’t get that at home. They’ve never seen that much food, right? Yeah, they don’t, they don’t. They have never seen that much food. Can I go back and get more? Yes and
Nestor Aparicio 24:17
yeah, take care of these kids. Take care of her camp opportunity, all right, we’re down here, Costas. I’m gonna let you go, because you got kids to do things with, and we might have to get a beer. We’re Costas, and we’re lingering longer. It’s the beginning of a long week. I am in better shape than I was last year. Last year I did a marathon. We were live remember, and it was just so stressful. Every piece I invited these fellows, I want to give them a shot at the guys from preparing for tomorrow are coming tomorrow, on Tuesday, they’re going to be my next guest. Nice, Kevin moody and Derek Johnson there to Baltimore City cops, and they have put together this mentoring program for young men, maybe on the edge, who maybe have a pathway to being police officer. Servers were contributing in some way. And they came last year and had audio problems and we were live, I had video problems and we were live, and I’m trying to, like, focus on their important thing, and I’m all effed up, and I’m like, You know what? They’re the first guys I got invite back this year, so we do it the right way. Yeah, good. No, yeah, there’s been no technical problems this year. I don’t have to pee. Nobody’s bothering me. I don’t make you wait a half an hour like I did last year. So a couple Super Bowl we’re off to the good start in our second annual couple Super Bowl support camp opportunity, paddles and pinwheels, rally for prevention. 2025 it is a pickleball tournament. You can learn about all of this out at Camp opportunity.org. It sounds like a big national organization, but it’s just some good people here from Perry Hall and Dundalk and beyond, helping kids get up to Harford County for Baltimore and do good things. Our friends at the Maryland lottery doing good things. They got a machine over here with the monopoly scratch offs. They gave me the magic eight ball here, number oh eight for Cal Ripken, 008 Chuck Dolph there for Andy eche Baron, but not for rich Dower, who we lost here today on the wnst tech service. Lot of things going on, weird stuff with the Justin Tucker thing. We got a Super Bowl this week. Each and every day, we’re gonna be telling lots and lots of stories. I want to promote some other people that are coming by later in a week, because we are wrapping things up here. Costas today, I am going to have the American Cancer Society in the Hope Lodge on Tuesday. Megan McCorkle, whom I love as leaving Enoch Pratt library. She’s going to live Baltimore. We’re going to talk to her. Jessica Normington, who came up to me about blind folks, who always nobody inspires me like blind folks. So we’re going to do this on Tuesday as well, Wednesday at TJ Humphreys. He’s the guy that won the Raven scratch off lottery game tickets for life. He did my show last year as the tickets for life winner. Turns out he’s in recovery and helps other people in recovery. So he’s going to come on the show on Wednesday at Cocos and tell me how he’s helping people. Clancy beer vendor, Clancy the land, the man, the myth that they made a beer after him. He’s gonna be at the show on Wednesday at Cocos with Dave Brelsford, who I met last week at beers and bots. This is a group that does that does robotics and stem in the city, trying to get these young folks in the city, city into STEM program, science, technology, math, the whole deal. Dave is a teacher at mervo. He’s going to come by on Wednesday, tell me what they’re doing. On Thursday, I have Kate Paris coming by talking about leukemia and lymphomas. I’ve raised enough money for him. I should say LLS coming by. Have Cassie Grady coming by to talk about Crohn’s on Thursday, one of my best friends in the oldest dudes in the universe, Jason semer, spent the last two weeks on safari in Africa. Wow. And he is a world class photographer, so he’s taken all of these crazy Africans far. He’s just back, so I’m gonna learn about his African safari system. We’re doing all week. I don’t know what you know, like, I’m not even the Friday when Rachel and her sister are gonna come by and do comedy about cancer. I don’t know how they’re gonna do this, but they’re gonna make me laugh, and we’re gonna raise some money. Kate Bell is gonna be here on Friday, and so I can’t Greg Abels supposed to come by on Friday, and Terry Beck’s gonna be here on Friday at Cooper’s North. He is a cancer survivor as well. So that’s a busy week, if I’m not inspired by the time Patrick mahomes wins his third Super Bowl in a row, I’m bad news. My thanks to Trish camp opportunity. Support them. Support all of our charities, and for my city and everybody else came by today, had the folks from st Lutherans church in Essex come by and toy closet. This gals mother created the biggest toy closet I’ve ever heard of. She said to me, on Christmas week, they have toys as biggest Costas a room as big as Costas. I believe it that they give 1000s of toys away on the second Saturday. This is going on in Essex. I didn’t even know about this. I love it, so we got to find out more about this stuff. That is what a couple Super Bowls all about. And it’s probably about me getting a cup of soup or a bowl right there at the bar with Trish from camp. Opportunity. We’re signing off from Costas. Plenty ahead. Joe Flacco is around here this week. Pro Football Hall of Fame vote the Justin Tucker thing, whatever that thing is, we’re going to continue talking about it. I’m back for more. We are Baltimore, positive. Stay with us.
