Veteran's Affairs Plus W/ David L. Washington

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on good day Las Vegas. This is Veterans Affairs, plus on 91.5 jazz and more. I'm Dave Washington, your host, and I am so blessed. God has blessed me with a great engineer, producer, director, Wes, I come in here running, trying to get in in the last minute. Say, calm down. You got this? Thanks. Wes. Anyway. I want to start this, this show off with, once again, making a few announcements, birthdays this month, my wonderful wife, Marsha's birthday is this month. Eddie Bucha, lifelong friend, Myron, Jenkins, Ray Feaster, Valerie Owens, who was a one of my wife's line dancing friends. RJ Robinson, he's deceased, but we still wishing him the very best, and hopefully he's having a good time in heaven. Les Brown, local guy, long time friend. And George Sims, so again, want to wish those folks happy birthday so and then the condolences. Oh, my goodness, we certainly express condolences of those folks on those planes who crashed this past week. So may God put their souls at rest, and may their families have the strength to get through this. I know it's just a terrible loss. Then a long time community member, dear friend, mother of Charlotte, Janell, Miss Bonnie. Janell passed away most recently, and you know, Bonnie was such a good person, and you know, we're going to miss her. I'll just put it like that. So her services is on the 15th of February at the downtown palms mortuary at noon. So for those of you can make it, please do. And then finally, with respect to condolences, want to express condolences to the goings family for my Mayor Pro Tem Aaron Goins passed away recently, so just again, wanted to pass those condolences on to folks out there and know that our prayers are with you. And then final thing I will, oh, this is Black History Month, of course, and we'll have further discussion about that with a program called Kim it in the desert, with producer, director, Oscar Robinson, so he'll be on in the next segment of our show. However, this first part of the show, we're going to have Miss Evelyn Pacheco, that I'll bring in shortly. She's doing some fantastic work in our community. Well, well, well, to all who voted for 47 I told you, and he told us what he was going to do, you know, it's just, it's just insane, you know, but he's doing what he do, and I can tell you with, with respects to de and I, 76% of the managers are Caucasian, with over 50% of them are women. So it's a lot of folks that this man is attempting to take out, and we just hope that everybody will remain calm. Don't sign no documents you know that may be put in front of you. Don't take the first offer to you because I don't know, and I'm not a, you know, I'm not a an attorney, but I just don't think he has the authority to do so. And let me say this once again, Jason has already stated that us talk show hosts to include me, Dave Washington Veterans Affairs, plus on 91.5 Jasmine, do not in any way speak for the university. So in further stating about 47 he wants to start some kind of government stock program. It's a type of a fund. And I'm like, Are you serious? You talk about money will be jeopardized. But that's something that this, this, number 47 is thinking about doing then the final thing is, can you believe it for all of the military folks out there, he wants to remove the Tuskegee Airmen from any pilot training academies throughout this country. That is. Sad, sad shape of affairs. But folks, most folks, already know about them, 47 so there's not much you can do with that. I want to introduce Evelyn Pacheco. She's doing some outstanding work in the field of jobs that are non traditional for women. How you doing Evelyn?

Evelyn Pacheco 5:19
I'm doing doing well. I'm doing well. I'm doing well. That's

Dave Washington 5:24
good to know, good to hear. So tell us about what you got going on, because you always out there, busy shaking the trees. In fact, I saw you at the moment. She was waving and hitting them politicians left and right. You know how to play this game. Go ahead.

Evelyn Pacheco 5:42
You know, I wanted to say thank you for making those announcements, because democracy is something that we were all fighting for, especially as a veteran and as a black women veteran, democracy is really in front of me, yes indeed, because you just said about the jobs that are gone and about other history that's being erased, and, and, and what about six, triple eight, we're going to erase them too. And you know, this is really, and again, this is what those knew that was voting for him, what was going to happen, but now it's like, I can't believe this is happening. Democracy is really falling clothing. Yeah, it is everybody, because that's where we where you went. But back to me, I am Army Veteran. I'm a disabled Army veteran. I am. Really want to bring awareness to civics, civics education as far as black women, because I am a black woman, and this month, we're doing engagement with black women veterans. And I thought about this back in December, you know, like, wow, it'd be cool because you don't see, well, I don't see anyways, any any, any organizations or anyone that's talking about black women veterans. You see veteran women, but you don't see specific about black women veterans. So I'm having a discussion, a round table discussion this Saturday, February 8, at the historic West Side school. It's going to be from 10 to one, and parking is on D and Adams Street right by the church. The Gate entrance would be on the street right there for the entrance to be able to come in and and engage in our roundtable. And we even we have shaquila, which is Army veteran. We have a key Navy veteran. We have Donna Lee, who is also a Vietnam veteran. She's Navy. And we have Keisha, she's Navy, and April, Air Force veteran, and we're going to have all these black women veterans sit at the table, and we're going to have discussions on what was their experience in the military, what any type of and I'm going to go there, what any type of sexual trauma, any PTSD, how do you feel now, right, as a veteran, how is, how do you? How is Nevada treating you as a black women veteran, right? What about housing? We know that's been and is a big thing. Housing for veteran women is far in between, and just I wish you as vets would open up a facility for this specifically, or Salvation Army, or goodwill, some somebody would all that federal dollars coming in to do something like this, this for, you know, housing for veteran women, let me

Dave Washington 8:55
say, let me say this. Evelyn, with your energy, young lady, it's going to happen. I can feel it because you, because you, you, you're such a hard charger. You don't, you don't readily accept no, like some folks, somebody tell them no, they just hunker down. But you, you get more grit in your gut. So go for it. Sister, free. Go ahead, it does.

Evelyn Pacheco 9:16
But isn't that what you're supposed to do? That's right? Isn't that what our ancestors did? They, didn't stop. They they kept moving. And I just, I want to do a shout out to Marcus over at the city location at Historia West guys, Marcus sherfield has been really supporting Nevada women in trades and vote Nevada and the VAT See, I want to thank all of them for being in my corner in supporting my cause, and thank you also, when I call you, you're and send you flyers, you're like, Yeah, that's good and but we gotta, we gotta keep, keep moving. And that's what, as a military person, that's what I was instilled to do, right? We don't, we don't get our marching orders and turn around and go back to do, sorry, say what? You tell us to do, right? We get our marching orders and we finish it, life or death, whatever, finish it, and then we come back. Right?

Dave Washington 10:07
That's right. Well, once again. Thank you again. To you. No anytime that I can do. I think that this platform that God has given us, we need to to make sure we get the word out. So when I saw your flyer, I'm like, wow, God, working because I had a cancelation. I'm putting Evelyn at the top of the show, because I think this is so important, this discussion that you're going to have. In fact, I think Wes could probably remind me, but I think a show or two ago, we had been to Dino Donahue. She used to work for Las Vegas Fire and Rescue, and also Lamar was Lamar Lucas. He worked for Clark County Fire, and Brenda took care of us when any of our people had any kind of issues with any main or incident, a major incident, I should say. And Lamar had moved out of town because he couldn't take it no more passing by a place where he saw some children had been expired through a fire, and it bothered him so much that he left town. So what you're doing, I think, is so important, and I know that there will be someone around there who because these women may need some further assistance today. So what you're doing is so remarkable, and I think that it's something that needs to be discussed in our community for sure. So you're doing a great work, and I'm happy to be able to give you a platform so we can get more folks out there to sit in and hear the discussion for sure.

Evelyn Pacheco 11:33
And can I say my website at WWW dot Nevada, spelled out, w i t.org That's nevadawit.org and in my Facebook is Nevada women in trades. And you'll see all my flyers, all my classes, and just thank everybody. And it's online too. You can go online this weekend if you can't make it to where historic west side, you can get on the Zoom ID. And zoom. ID is 930-361-3220, and thank you again. I appreciate you for all that you do for this community, and I'm glad you're leading the way. Thank

Dave Washington 12:13
you. And let me, let me ask you to do this, because I think we got another minute or two look when you got a program, and I think the opening isn't sometime in October that you will feel seats. Yes, please.

Evelyn Pacheco 12:26
Yes, yes. We need to do that too. Ladies, ladies out here that are interested in all trades, not just construction, but all trades we do, mining, we have to where you can get into the culinary we have plumbing. We even, even the firefighters. I support, I support you too, to build it. You know, that's a trade to even get into sprinkler sitters and the operators union and the electricians and and there's a lot of work coming down the pike. Y'all, lot of work coming here to Nevada, and think, I think about things that are happening in California, there's going to need some construction there. So construction is really going to be in the forefront here. And about another six months, and we're going to need, and they're going to need to have ladies in construction. They're going to need us ladies. So I have a class around the third week in October, and I'd love to talk to you about how to get into the trades and make over 100,000

Dave Washington 13:27
a year. That's very important. Evelyn, thank you so much for your energy and your commitment to making sure women get an opportunity to make some money in this great society of ours. So once again, this is Veterans Affairs, plus on 91.5 jazz and more, we just had Evelyn Pacheco, a great lady who's doing wonderful work in our community. And on the other side, we will have Mr. Oscar Robinson, thank you, Evelyn.

Evelyn Pacheco 13:53
Thank you so much to appreciate you. All right. Bye, bye,

Dave Washington 14:02
once again, this is Veterans Affairs, plus on 91.5 jazz and more. I'm Dave Washington, your host. And as I mentioned, on this side, we have the wonderful, the great, Mr. Oscar Robinson, how you doing, Oscar?

Oscar Robinson 14:18
I am wonderful. How are you brother. I'm holding on,

Dave Washington 14:22
holding on, Oscar. Please tell our little listening audience a little bit about you, please.

Oscar Robinson 14:27
Well, as you say, I am Oscar Robinson. I am a producer, director and writer of live stage productions. I am also the executive director of Kemet in the desert series, and your audience is cordially invited to the 12th annual came it in the desert series, black weekend, 2025 it will be presented on Friday and Saturday, February the 21st and 22nd and. At the West Las Vegas Library theater located at 951 West Lake Mead. Great

Dave Washington 15:06
look, Oscar. Till I know that this didn't just happen. You are a trained person in this particular field. Please give us some of your background, if you would, for the listening audience,

Oscar Robinson 15:20
I am a graduate of Shaw University out of Raleigh, North Carolina. My professors, HP and PC, capo, and my degree is in theater arts and radio, television and film. I started the first professional black theater company in Las Vegas in 1994 I opened up the West Las Vegas Library theater in 1995 and the rest, as they say, is history.

Dave Washington 15:48
You have a very you talk about a rich history, so you have been trained in this field. And how many different plays or shows have you? If you if you can think of that off the top of your head that you've actually directed or produced,

Oscar Robinson 16:06
I've directed and produced countless productions ever since I've been producing and directing since high school. Professionally, I was fortunate, fortunate enough to discover my talent when I was 15 years old, in fact, during at Kim desert, 2025 my mentor, my teacher and my guide, she will be here. Her name is Florence Roach, and she will perform at the event in Las Vegas. You are in for a treat.

Dave Washington 16:36
Oh, wow, excellent. So, where were you born and raised?

Oscar Robinson 16:43
I help from Memphis, Tennessee. You know, I do a lot of musicals, but I'm not a musician, right? I do a lot of musicals because I am from Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis, Tennessee is the home of the blues and the birth of rock and roll, so music is in my blood.

Dave Washington 17:03
I love it. So you you have brothers and sisters by chance.

Oscar Robinson 17:07
Yes, I have two brothers and two sisters, and my family is a production family. Every this. Our entire family is a big production. I have my nephews are a professional chef, celebrity chefs. My brother has the longest running cable talk show in Tennessee called the rainbow connection. We produced a documentary a couple of years ago called The People's convention, when we elected the first black mayor in Memphis, we actually submitted the documentary in the Las Vegas black film festival. And guess what we won. You

Dave Washington 17:47
know what? That's interesting that you mentioned a film festival, God willing, as they see in the creek, don't rise next Friday, I'm going down to Santa Barbara to their film festival. And you know, I run an institute of fire Education and Training Institute at Dillard University in New Orle. And we had a couple of our guys who actually went through one of our classes and gained information they thought they could take back home, and they prepared an EMT and firefighter training program where it's going to be featured as a documentary in the film festival of Santa Barbara. I'm going down so I can learn something. Because our institute, the Carl Holmes executive development institute, I believe that it needs to be doc. It needs to be a documentary at some point. So anyway, that's outstanding work that you're doing. And your family, you got a whole family of people who do this kind of work. So give us a rundown again on the activities, because I think we got plenty of time.

Oscar Robinson 18:46
Okay, the event Kimmy didn't desert series, 12th annual series, will start promptly at 7pm however, this year, the doors will open at 5pm because we will hold a silent auction for our Kimon in the desert jewelry collection, sponsored by World gym Art Gallery and Nikki Michelle jury collection. Food will be available to purchase through Jackie Stevenson's barbecue now on Friday night, Kim and in the desert series will present the documentary global assignment, the life and times of Doctor Renoir sheet. Oh, what? Excuse me. Let me

Dave Washington 19:25
just say this, what a great guy. I got a couple of his books, and I used to watch some of his YouTube sessions. What a bad brother, and he is sorely missed that what? He passed away a couple years ago.

Oscar Robinson 19:36
But yes, yeah, he transitioned in Egypt in 2021 so

Dave Washington 19:43
I'm sorry you say so. So there's a documentary that we've shown on on Friday night.

Oscar Robinson 19:47
Friday night, the documentary will be shown, uh, Doctor Rashida was our first master teacher in 2013 now the documentary was produced by Doctor rich Edie's good friend and colleague, Doctor Anthony Tony. Crowder,

Dave Washington 20:00
oh, what another great man. Yes. Now the

Oscar Robinson 20:03
documentary global assignment will be submitted as a feature film in the Las Vegas black film festival coming up in

Dave Washington 20:10
April. Great, wonderful, wonderful. Now on Saturday

Oscar Robinson 20:14
night, we will continue to advance the legacy of our founder, Franklin G Fairley, and the master teacher will be Dr Anthony Tony Browder. His lecture is entitled, Why Kemet matters. And of course, the Kemet in the desert players and studio 305 will electrify the audience as we elevate your frequency and your consciousness. Now coming in the desert series is always free and open to the general public. We are a non profit, 501 c3 organization. All donations are tax deductible to make a donation to coming in the desert, 7027 72 8600 that's 702 77 280. 600

Dave Washington 21:06
Brother, you are doing wonderful work. In fact, I gotta make sure I put your organization, Oscar, on my list. But I always try to make sure that I not a lot of money. But you know, I'm I'm giving it to Uncle Sam anyway, so I may as well try to give it to some organizations that I believe in, and that's the key thing we should make contributions to those organizations that we feel are are funneling or moving forward in some of the thoughts that we have as as citizens of this United States of America. And we are, and also we must remember, we are global citizens. And one thing I know about us, and I must speak particularly of black folks. We have not lost our humanity, and that's one of the key things to society. We cannot leave anyone behind. And we know the Bible, not a lot of the Great, the greatest person in terms of knowledge of the Bible, but I do know that it says that there will always be poor and I know I saw Commissioner single bloom on on TV last night, and they were talking about, you know, this ordinance, how they got to get people off the street. And I could appreciate all of that, but we cannot forget and we've got to do things to help those who are less fortunate. So the work that you're doing, man, and again, I'm encouraging folks give that information again, how they can donate to your to your organization, you

Oscar Robinson 22:22
can donate to Kim it in the desert series by calling 7027 72 8600 that's 7027 72 8600

Dave Washington 22:37
so brother Oscar, what's going on in the city of Memphis that you may have going on that. Because I know some people live you. I don't know if you remember Faye Duncan, Daniel. She lives over in Helena, Arkansas, which is about 5560 miles. And Faye loves to go to plays and those types of things. So I trust that there's something that you're doing in the city of Memphis.

Oscar Robinson 22:57
Yes, I actually talked to Faye not long ago in Memphis, we have a site historical sightseeing tour company called sounds of Memphis tours. And we'll be in Memphis, a very historic city, and we give you all that rich history Memphis. It's rich in music history. You have stacks museum, you have you have Elvis Presley, you have al Green's recording. You have all of that beautiful music. You have rich Memphis is rich in slave history. Memphis was the slave capital of the world because of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nathan Bedford Forrest, after slavery was abolished. Nathan death for us founded the Ku Klux Klan. Mm, wow. Memphis is, Memphis is rich in civil rights history and Civil War history. So Memphis is a very rich history. And of course, I put my entertainment spin on it. You have Dr King was assassinated. Then Dr King delivered his last speech in Memphis, Tennessee. So it's very impactful the sounds of Memphis tours. So

Dave Washington 24:06
let me ask you this, brother, Oscar, because we got about four and a half minutes or so left. What kind of encouragement would you share with those folks, black, white, male, female that may have young people who are interested in this craft, what advice would you or suggestions would you give?

Oscar Robinson 24:26
Well, it's very important to observe your children and observe their talents, their natural God given talents, and direct them in that direction and nurture it and develop it and culture it, cultivated. I encourage you to go to theater organizations, get a part of be a part of productions. I started in a professional production doing a summer youth program. That's why I actually started, and they actually paid me, and I would have done it for free, so and that's why. Discover my talent. I mean, it's like, Yo, you're pretty good at this. That's all. And actually kept me off the streets. It's very therapeutic, right? It kept me, kept me off the street, and kept me out of trouble, and gave me discipline. And discipline is very, very important in life period. And because of that discipline, you know, when I was in high school, I said, I'll never will go back to school. What if I get out of high school? But because of theater, I went to college. And when I went to college, I'm still associated with some of my colleagues. I went to college today, you know? And what the other community tells their daughters, find your husband when you go to college. And that's very important to do, because you'll be equally yoked if you do so

Dave Washington 25:48
well like I say, I think something that really is just captures my brain in that you said that observe your children. God, give us all certain talents, and a lot of times, people leave this earth without even exploring or even realizing what their value is in terms of their God given talent. So I think that's very important advice to people, to check your child out, and sometimes don't try to put a round pig into a square hole or whatever that term is right, because it's not going to work. So observe that talent, man, and then try to help to cultivate it, if you will. Oscar, I'm so pleased, I am so pleased that you were able to to come on today. So again, give us another rundown, because we do have the time. Give us another rundown on both days, real quickly, if you

Oscar Robinson 26:41
would, on Friday night we're going to present the documentary global assignment, the life and times of Dr Renoir sheeting, and on Saturday night, we're going to present our master teacher, Dr Anthony Tony Browder, who produced the documentary global assignment. So we were very excited about Dr Browder. He's a hard hitter, as you know, he's traveled the world. He's the only African American to excavate in Egypt, the only one he and his daughter. And not only does he excavate these artifacts, He restores them and gives them back to the government in Egypt.

Dave Washington 27:20
And you know what? Something interesting about him from following him, seeing him on different shows, etc. He is not an archeologist, a trained archeologist, or whatever, those folks who do all that digging and stuff. But again, God gave his brother this talent man. And he makes it happen. It's really it's really something.

Oscar Robinson 27:41
And he tours. He has a tour coming up. He has a tour coming up in Paris and London, where all the artifacts of Africa are now. And he has a tour coming up in July, I want to say so, but he'll share that with you at the at the event. All

Dave Washington 27:54
right. Well, once again, Las Vegas Veterans Affairs, plus so 91.5 jazz and more. I'm Dave Washington, your host and I had the great producer, director, Oscar Robinson, who will be doing Kim it in the desert, here in Las Vegas later this month. Thank you, Oscar.

Oscar Robinson 28:11
Thank you, brother. You

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