 Hello, Columbia, and welcome to CityView, where we give you an inside view of the city of Columbia. I'm your host, Alicia Yuzzi. In our top story, we have breaking news. The city of Columbia is the first lead certified city in the state of South Carolina. The city is one of that small group, as Claire mentioned, of 120 local governments worldwide to achieve this lead certification. And we've been doing it for about the last eight years. It's truly remarkable. You'll see some YouTube videos with little more details that Claire had presented. But to me, what stood out was really the reduction of energy and greenhouse gas emissions, which a lot of cities and a lot of companies are interested in doing to help us all in the long term. So we applaud Mayor Rickinman, city council members, city of Columbia staff. I know there are many of them in this room and certainly the public works department. And Claire, for doing this hard work in this heavy lift to raise the bar for what we should expect from our cities and communities. And your commitment to this comprehensive, city-wide version will provide really in the long-term a stream of environmental, economic, community, and worker benefits for decades to come. So on behalf of the US Green Building Council, I am very proud to present the city with their lead gold certification, which I have on this plaque and you will probably also receive one for your building. But I welcome the mayor, city council, and our public works group to come up and accept this award. Our staff in Parks and Recreation will recognize because July was National Parks and Recreation Month. I'd like to declare Parks and Recs Month on behalf of myself and this body at city council and would like all of Parks and Recs to come up front here to accept this proclamation and be part of the picture for it. In breaking news for the city of Columbia, Columbia has been named as one of the best places to live in South Carolina. This designation comes from Travel and Leisure Magazine. The magazine included Columbia, South Carolina as one of the best places to live in this state. In order to spread the good news, the city of Columbia has posted various billboards throughout the community to let our citizens know about this recent designation and to make sure that everyone knows to take pride in our city. Always remember that we are Columbia and Columbia is a great place to live, work, grow and play. We start off with a series of ribbon cuttings and grand opening ceremonies for local businesses that have recently opened here in the city of Columbia. This historic cottage here, again, as it's been through a cycle, it's been medical offices, it's been all types of things in its history, but now we have our continuation of innkeepers and Crystal and Ken, we're so excited for y'all. I know y'all are gonna be excited. I know you've been excited. You've been doing this for a little bit, but really for being part and a way to introduce you to our community. The Northman corridor is probably one of the most important corridors in my district. I care for it very deeply and I also care for the minority community that surrounds here. This is my community. And so this is also an example of wealth creation and the fact that we own something on North Main Street as it begins to develop. And y'all need to give, y'all really need to clap because, I mean, we live out here and we lease out here, but we do not own here. And I know that Ashley had her little store down the street and now she has her own space and which is very exciting and you haven't been inside. It is, it'll make you smile. There are a lot of funny things in there, a lot of cool gifts to put some joy in everybody's but excited to have another woman owned business open up this week. The Columbia Rich and Fire Department recently hosted the Summer Youth Academy for local youth who were needing jobs and job training during the summer. What we have here is some gentlemen that started out slow and finished fast and finished well. They are a great group. They have done things that they didn't expect to do and it wasn't the usual camp and beer. They would just sit around and wonder what was going to do next. So we tested them and taught different aspects of life and they did well. Other summer news, our parks have been very busy this summer. One of the activities has been primetime in the parks. We share with you now highlights from two recent events. Another recent event was a Greenview Park event for a back to school badge that supplied school supplies to children in our local community. Staff from our Columbia Police Department and the Columbia Rich and Fire Department recently joined together to support a fundraiser to provide funds for the family members of those who were related to the Irma Firefighter who recently lost his life in the line of duty. The battle of the badges hockey match raised money locally for that cause. In other news, the Columbia Rich and Fire Department was also recently recognized as a fire safe community. Well, I'm very proud of my department and the men and women of my department that not only put their lives on the line but they also want to make sure the lives are being saved before they even get there just by being a fire safe community designated in South Carolina. And this is like the fourth time we've got assisted its inception and we just want to thank you all for recognizing our department. Thank you for watching City View where we bring you an inside view of the city of Columbia. 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