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WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT to feed, clothe, and help the #homeless in our region? WHAT causes homelessness? Is helping the homeless enabling or doing something good? Is it something that even CAN be solved?

While I often feel conflicted about this issue, our Panelists on Today's podcast, provide some great insights and personal stories and experiences! Join the conversation and drop your thoughts and comments in the feed!

TODAY on the Youngstown Click Be Connected podcast, we have JereB, local experienced musician/producer. He is premiering a recently produced song that is NOW AVAILABLE for download with any donation, with 80% of all proceeds going straight to help the homeless and struggling in our region! Also, special thanks to him for connecting everyone!

Vocalist Lisa McDavid, a Youngstown native who now resides in Fort Wayne, IN wrote the song and sings lead vocals on it. She shares about the mysterious homeless man who inspired the song and thereby this whole project and then disappeared. She regularly works with the homeless in her city as well and would love for this song to spread out to do the same kind of fundraising in other cities across America!

We have Lynn Wyant, who has been a part of the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley for the past 20 years! She has seen both success stories and heartbreaking patterns in the work that she does! She shares what part the Mission has in helping the struggling men, women, and families in our region!

FREE meals (over 124,000 served in 2024), 58,000 overnight stays, help with job skills, facilitating mental and spiritual growth/healing, and teaching life skills are all a part of the amazing work that both staff and volunteers do daily at our local mission on the city's north side.

Adding to the panel with some powerful stories from the trenches of homeless camps and hidden pockets is Patty Summers, founder of Youngstown Blue Coats. She has reached freezing people right here in Youngstown in the knick of time with warmth and medical treatment and regularly goes out to reach people where they are with coats, sleeping bags, socks, and more! The Blue Coats work with other local organizations to maximize their reach and impact, driving a big blue bus like a vehicle of hope.

Rounding out the panel is Kyle Costal, musician and rapper, who adds a verse to this inspiring song. He writes his own music as well and has traveled the nation singing to anyone who listens, while connecting with some of the most unexpected people in unexpected places! He also jumped in to run the video board and for that, I can't thank him enough!!

His music name is "Hegemon", so make sure to check him out to support local music!

TO SUPPORT THE WORK:
Donate & Download the BRAND NEW song from one or both of these websites! Whichever one you download it from, will immediately get 80% of what you donate!
Youngstown Blue Coats: www.ytownbluecoats.org
Rescue Mission: www.rescuemissionmv.

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Penguin Signal Ep. 9 - YSU TRACK/FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY & The DECADE OF DOMINATION I JUST WATCHED A MOVIE about an underdog kid who made history doing TRACK & FIELD in the Olympics!

And TODAY, I want to introduce you to our VERY OWN #YoungstownStateUniversity Track, Field, and Cross Country Coaches and runners! Our MEN'S team has been at the top of the national status and has won the past 3 in a row AND our WOMEN'S team team is coming for it this year!!!

They call it the #DecadeofDomination with 10 out of 10 indoor wins for the Men and 9 out of 10 indoor wins for the Women, as these young people and top notch coaches have traveled the country representing #YSU across miles of challenge!

MEET the legendary and nationally well respected Head Track and Field Coach Brian Gorby and the popular and determined Assistant Coach Bre Rupe! Joining us are TWO impressive Cross-country RUNNERS who get to take turns asking their coaches an interview question! 🙂 Jenna Razavi and Patrick Burgos are such great sports as we ask questions about themselves AND their teammates!! 🙂

So many people in our region don't have any connection to our internationally known university right here in Youngstown! That is why we bring you the #PenguinSignalpodcast​! When you see these hard working kids, coaches, and teams on tv or on the field playing, you will now have a closer connection to them as a member of our region!

The Penguin Signal podcast can also be found on it's own YouTube Channel at the @ThePenguinSignal​ and comes to you from The Varsity Club of Youngstown! The Varsity Club is a great place for all things YSU and is now home to a BRAND NEW 35 ft #PetethePenguin​ mural on the side of the patio!

SPECIAL THANKS to our partners: The Gallagher - downtown living close to the YSU campus and in the heart of the city! The Varsity Club of Youngstown - gathering place with great food and seating options! Streaming all YSU televised games, great food specials, and activities throughout the week!

Some of the teams #FAVORITEPLACES (and they think you should check them out too)​:

1. Cellar Door Coffee Shop - Garrettsville, OH

2. StoneFruit Coffee on the YSU campus

3. Avalon Downtown

4. Glenwood Grounds Cafe

5. Chick-fil-A Boardman

6. Jersey Mike's Subs

7. Mill Creek MetroParks

#crosscountry #Track #field #NationalChampionship #Athletes #offthefield #CoachGorby #course #running #Panerathon #Youngstown #Ohio #women #men #college #coaches #supportYSU #YoungstownFoundation #podcast #YoungstownClick #intheClick #PenguinSignal #PetethePenguin #downtown #Ohio #obstaclecourse #November #freshman #senior

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As we go into this holiday season, stress is all around us. It's a blur, it's a whirlwind, and then the year is over...Sometimes it feels like life happens TO us instead of FOR us. But you have a purpose. You are here for a reason. SHAKE OFF failures and LAY DOWN successes and start fresh with every new day!

Each day is a gift. It is not meant to be lived in guilt, shame, fear or pride, but rather enjoyed, freshly renewed with forgiveness, humility, and a fresh start!

This message is for YOU because you are too important to be stuck! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

#positive #encouragement #love #joy #newday #newYear #family #forgiveness #discouragement #notalone #purpose #life #YoungstownClick

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