 Hey everyone, it's Vinnie, so you're a Community Outreach Specialist. I don't know if I mentioned this, but today I am with the Wulukuchi River Electric Co-op and I am going to be spending some time with some linesmen and some journeymen to show you guys what they do and also we provided WREC with a check for the Vincent Academy that we will be starting in Pasca Academy, the third in the state. So stay tuned for some information on that. Let's see what we can get into today. Everyone, okay, you might remember Dave Landford. Hey everybody. With WREC, W-R-E-C? With Lulukuchi River Electric Co-op. Yes, okay, come through with the acronyms. Okay, today I am out, we are gonna, I'm gonna be on a line possibly. She's gonna spend the day with alignment. Yes, yes, it's gonna be really interesting because we all know how I feel about heights, but we're gonna show you some cool stuff that they do, but beforehand we wanted to talk to you guys about the Vincent House because we, you, all of you are starting the third Vincent Academy in the state of Florida. So tell our followers what does that even mean? So Vincent House is a great model. It was started by Diane and Elliot Steele and it's a partnership with us to bring Vincent House here and Vincent House is a recovery through work center. It operates five, it's awesome. It operates five days a week. We opened in Hernando about 20 months ago and received our national accreditation, which is the gold standard for club houses in 20 months. We have about 80 members there. We're fixing ready to break ground on a brand new building here in Pasco. It's gonna be huge. You just seen the plan. It's gonna be nice. Yes. And it's gonna help folks. We call our people who come to Vincent House members. You have to have a mental health diagnosis. And then we teach job training skills. We partner with local employers to get people back to work. So Pasco County Housing Authority is one of our folks that we recently partnered with, Career Source, the public defender's office, and the sheriff just donated money to help get Vincent House started our new building. So thank you sheriff. Thank you everybody who helps the sheriff. We greatly appreciate it because it's truly a community and we work with the sheriff on a lot of things. Exactly. And the sheriff in the office and the folks that we do really care. So it is a great thing for us to do. And I think you're gonna love Vincent House. It's gonna be a great addition to the community. I can't wait. And it's gonna be a great asset to our community. So it's gonna do phenomenal work. Here, thank you very much. I'm here for my gear. What we have. Okay. Break it down for me. This is your hard hat. Hard hat. Is it good? We gave you a brand new one. Ooh, love it. Okay. Safety glasses. This is all PPE. Personal protective equipment. There's wear every day. Okay. Okay. You got a vest. Anytime we're working on the roadway, public roadway. Have to be seen. We got to be seen. Exactly. Okay. Last item is a bucket lander. Okay. This is what you will wear when you open the bucket. Okay. This is what every every lineman wears here at the co-op. It's called it's a fall protection device. Okay. And you put this on and it snaps onto the side of the boom. So if anything was to happen you would be ejected out of the boom. Yeah, there's a pack in here that will come stretchy, stretchy out. Okay. Where it won't break your back. Oh goodness. Okay. That's all your stuff for today. This is my gear. Yep. So we'll get her loaded up for you. Okay. Hey everyone. So I am here with Sal and with Christian who I am technically on their crew today. So we got to like squeeze hands, you guys. We got to squeeze. There we go. I'm technically on their crew today and Sal is a Druides man and Christian is a Lineman and his apprenticeship. Yes. So what we're going to do today, we're going to go out and do some maintenance, housing maintenance. I might get in a bucket. We'll see how my fears of heights works out. But are you guys ready? Yeah. Say hello to our YouTube fan. Hello. How's it going? All right. Say hello one more time. What does this truck do? This is a service truck. So we'll do just like regular service maintenance work. And we'll also answer trouble calls. So people have problems while we're out, which is okay. We are the first guys to respond to that. Okay. What's a what's a maintenance call? Is it just obviously just like upkeep? Yeah, they'll give us a list of things to do today. We're going to start off with a disconnect rollback for demolition house. Okay. So cutting off power for a house to get knocked down. Okay. I got this. Okay. So you ready to go? I'm ready. All right. I don't have to wear my hat just yet guys, but I got all my gear. We're good. Right location. So we're in the right spot. Okay. So what we'll do is we'll now go look at where we're going to set up the truck to de-energize the service. What is this one called right here? We are this is a temporary disconnect for demolition. Okay, good. So there'll be another home here eventually and they'll reuse this service. Okay. Yeah. We usually just kind of take a look at it where we want to set the truck up. So we got all these wires right here. So we can't really boom into them. Okay. So we'll just set the truck up by something like this right here and then he'll boom and disconnect it. What's your favorite thing about this job? Favorite thing. Yes, your favorite thing. I would say probably I'm doing different stuff every day. There you go. Not having to sit inside of a desk. Not being inside. That's great. Pretty soon watch the moment. He's pulling the right legs and that's this thing. Are followers about the apprenticeship program? Yes. What do you guys have to say? Well, when you first start, you're a pre-apprentice. Okay. So you go your first year on the trouble list. Basically just work day to five. Trouble list means not that you're in trouble, but that you're you're doing like the emergency calls. Yes. And then after you take your first year test and you're on the trouble list and three weeks out of the year you're on call. Okay. That's not bad. Lucky. That's not bad. That's not bad. Like a step test until you get to your five years and then. And once it's so once a month you have a classroom day. Once a month you have a class and then once a month you have to take a test. Okay. And then once a year you take a yearly test too. Once a year you take a yearly test and you take it up. Oh so that's not so the guys that were out there climbing earlier today they have to do that once a week. You have to go climb. Okay. Just and you just you can do it at any day just with whoever your journeyman is. Okay. Sometimes you have to climb the street lights, transformers. Okay. So like field hours basically. Like you're like walking in like field hours. Okay. Okay. When we also do that too we have to get a certain amount of hours in each task. Too bad. But if you're not cut out for it guys, you're not cut out. It'll be the last time they probably see you this time. Thank you.