 I'm Sabrina Odom Edwards, the Executive Director for the North Columbia Business Association. Now, the next person you will hear from that we call Mama Geneva, she works in the Carolina colonels retail side and she's gonna come and bless the building. Good evening. Let us pray. Father we come in the name of Jesus. We give you praise during honor for this day. We thank you Father God for who you are and what you've done for us. Father we come with praises in our hearts and thanks even in our hearts and praise in our lips. Father we just love you and praise you for who you are but most of all we thank you for that which you've done for us what you're doing now Lord God and what you're yet to do. Thank you for each one old God that I hear this afternoon to participate in this event. Father I ask your blessings upon them right now and especially the blessing of the new business old God. We could not have done without you but through Christ Jesus we can do all things because He gives us strength without you Lord we are nothing. We give you praise during honor for it's in Jesus name that we do pray. Amen and amen. We just been in the Noma church. The next remarks you will hear will be from Councilwoman Tina Herbert. She is the city of Columbia District 1 Councilwoman. I'm not as tall as Sabrina and I'm gonna try and talk as loud as possible. First of all mama thank you for the prayer and you know if you start things out with prayer y'all everything is going to be all right but I just had a flashback I know I have my talking points but I just have a flashback because I was here and I know Sabrina was here for the grand opening that y'all had for Carolina colonels. So we are back here again and I'm so excited to congratulate Benson and Tamela Lathan on the grand opening of Hot Heads Columbia. Tamela is extra special to me because she grew up in Greenview and she went to W. J. Keenan High School. Are there any raiders? Any raiders? Raiders in the house. As the owner of Carolina colonels for the past eight years they are obviously invested in our community. Ribbon cuttings and ceremonies like this provide the opportunity to see our growth on the corridor. We've seen a number of businesses open over the last year and I'm excited to celebrate with all of them and all of you. It's also important I'm especially proud to promote our minority businesses that are on the corridor as this corridor continues to build and grow. If you all have future plans to grow something else we want y'all to stay stay right here too. We congratulate you and your staff and your family and we look forward to your success in the community. Thank you so much and congratulations. Okay so um we will have Councilman Edward Madaw may you pretend to say a few words. Hello. Yeah. Before I say anything I simply want to say mama thank you for your blessing and after that I would simply say let the ushers come forward and let's take up an offering. Thank you so much for your spirit and thank you so much for that blessing. Over 70 businesses in Colombia have been created and are new. We are glad that we have a business new business here in this corridor on this corridor. Isn't it great to know that minority businesses are not in extinction but they are growing and expanding every day so I want to thank now I must say this before I go any further I'm on the other side in district one but I eat district two sometimes I don't know where I am but I'm in district two but I eat in district one. Thank you so much for your ingenuity thank you so much for the energy and the synergy you put into this business and this business and this city stands behind you thank you so much. First of all thank everyone oh no no no first of all thank god for all of this because without him it wouldn't be possible. Then next we want to thank the city council Noma trust so district Serena for putting all this together today all of our family members close friends that's travel that's here our customers from Carolina criminals that supported us for over eight years and for them supporting this new business we're really really grateful for you all and we look forward to serving you thank y'all so much.