 still working as always. We appreciate what she does at this time. We got time. Lord, I have to do a blade as well. Andrew Ray Buck, our chairman as well is here. So any other members, I think that's everybody. So again, let's give them a round of applause for being on our board and we thank them for being here as well. NCBA is the governing board, central governing body here along the core door and we have direct access to the city of Columbia. We think our city officials for being here as well. We're here again to celebrate the opening of Abney Seafood who was once here now come back to locate in this area. You hear more about that a little bit later. Uh, North Columbia or NCBA has what we call three districts. Now we have this gateway community based from I 20 on down a little further down the street. Then we have the Columbia College gate area and then we have the Trussell district, which is down further by Irwood Park. And so Kenneth Robinson, who is the chairperson for this gateway community will come before us now with a few words as well. Let's welcome Kenneth. Good morning, everyone. Morning. Let's try that one more time. Good morning, everyone. All right. That's much better. On behalf of NCBA, um, Abney family, we welcome you back to the gateway district and you're my neighbor. I'm one of the owners of nothing but wings here on the corner. So we're glad to have you here. I'll be reaching out to you to see if there's anything I can do to help you guys in the gateway district. We hope that you are very successful and we're here to support you and for everybody out here as well. Please support Abney Seafood and let them know that we appreciate them coming back to the gateway district. They could have came anywhere in Columbia, but they came back home. So we glad to have you and welcome. Thank you, Jamie. Thank you. Thank you, Kenneth. We appreciate you. We appreciate your family also being in this community and what you guys do on a daily basis. Next, we have with us Councilwoman out of the bustles who in her first term has done a lot for this greater Columbia area. She's a city council woman at large recently appointed to the National League of Cities Board who is doing some great things here in Columbia. So we look forward to her continued leadership. We appreciate what she's done for us thus far and look forward to everything she's going to do. At this time, we introduce Councilwoman out of the bustles. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. And thank you for being here on this beautiful day in Columbia. Congratulations to the Abney family for this grand opening. I've already picked out the fish I'm taking home. Although I can't pronounce it. I do know I'm gonna cook it and cook it well and probably fry it as I was talking about this this opening. I love to read the story behind a business opening. And what I learned about the story of the Abney family is this is more than just a fish market. It's passing down stories, traditions. It's passing generational wealth to the sun to start anew and create something in his own home. And that's exactly the type of stories that I want to bring about and bring to light in this amazing city. And so to have you come back and choose Columbia means a lot to us. And I'm very, very excited to continue to promote this business and most importantly remind people that it's not just about a small business. It's about families. It's about communities. It's about building a future for the next generation. He already has his nine year old son involved as well as his daughter and we couldn't ask for anything better. That's talent retention. Those are all the things that we talk about on a city council level about what makes Columbia more thriving and equitable city. And I think that the Abney seafood market is a prime example of that. So congratulations on a wonderful opening and I will pass it over to our owner. Anything to say, but I'm very proud of my son and his accomplishments along with the guidance of his mother. It's been one of the spearhead. She's a more spearhead than I am. She can get me straight. And like I said, we want to come back home. I thought about it and I thought about it. And I said to Timmy, you know what? Let's come back home. You know, I mean, I knew Mr Cook was in this building here a long time ago. The same identical building we had a business over here and it was called music wholesalers and ice cream parlor and came available. I said, Timmy, you want to go home? He said, Yeah, let's go home. That you tell me. So that's how we got started. And I'm just proud of him. What is it? What he's accomplished? You know what I mean? Throughout the years and hopefully we'll be here for the next 30 or 40 years. Because we had to come back home. North Main Street is our home. It's our community. My children was raised over here. And all I can say is thank God and God bless at the Seafood and everybody who's here today. Thank you. Well, he pretty much said everything. I'd like to thank all you for coming out and supporting us today. Um. Back in the nineties, my father did open up in Seafood. It was just a few bucks down the street and all the shopping plaza. We had the first business. He moved to Bloodford and moved to Orangeburg. He retired. Like you said, we've been going back and forth about opening another fish market and opportunity became available. So we collaborated. We decided to go forward. And now here we are today. 6317 North Main Street in the north side shopping plaza. And we're gonna be opening the grand opening today for Admin Seafood. There are lots of fresh fish, cookfish, shellfish, pretty much anything from the sea. Once again, I just like to thank you all. This is my home. I grew up in this neighborhood right behind us. North 21 Terrace. This is my community right here, the gateway of Columbia. And I'm just happy to be here and I thank you all for coming. Oh, we will be open Tuesday through Saturday from, um, 10 to nine every day. Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Tim. We appreciate you. We appreciate your follow appreciate your family. And what you guys do to help revitalize this area to continue to show that businesses are strong here in the north Columbia area as well as in the city and the state of South Carolina. We continue to ask that you all please come out to support this business as well as the other business alone, the corridor. But today it is all about Admin Seafood. And so we want to, uh, again, congratulate them. Thank them for coming back home as they said, because, you know, they could have went anywhere and they chose to come back here to the great city of Columbia. So we're greatly appreciative at this time. We'll get ready for the ribbon cutting and Sabrina will give us some directions and we will go from there. I do want to take a point of personal privilege and recognize a former school board member risked and to miss Melinda Anderson, uh, who did a yeoman's job when she was in office. So we thank you for being here as well. Um, I thought I saw some city staff. I see, uh, chief Jenkins out in the audience. Um, so thank you for being here. See some other city staff and I should make an IE shouldn't everybody else. And, uh, so thank you all so much for being here, coming out and supporting, uh, NCBA along with the Abney family in this grand opening. Thank you all so much. Okay, we're gonna do a stage ribbon cutting first. So you're not gonna cut. We're just gonna do a stage one to make sure we get good pictures. Sorry. Two, three.