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Danielle: Welcome back everyone to the Parkway Real Estate podcast. I'm Danielle O'Brien, broker owner of Parkway Real Estate here in West Roxbury. And today we are getting into the Halloween of spirit. We have Dave Giordano with us, president of Parkway in Motion for the last 10 years. If you've been to a community event around here, chances are Parkway in Motion had something to do with it or was there, you know, with their big tent letting everybody know who they are.
Danielle: And they should be because they are a real community staple around here. They host a big Easter egg hunt every year. They do trick-or-treat Centre Street and the group really knows how to bring the neighborhood together. And they've had some events that they no longer do, some that are really staples for them, and we're going to chat all about that. I've known Dave for years around town.
Danielle: Our kids grew up playing the same sports, mainly baseball and hockey, I think. And so, we've had our fair share of time on the sidelines and within the same ranks. But today, we are going to dig into how Parkway in Motion got started, where it's heading next, and everything you need to know about Trick-or-Treat Centre Street for this year. That's coming up in a couple weeks.
Danielle: So, let's get into it. Dave, thanks so much for joining me. This episode is sponsored by Parkway Real Estate. For more information, call 857-400-9078.
Dave: Hi, Danielle and thanks for having me. This is great.
Danielle: Yeah, I'm so excited. I've been texting you and bugging you to get on for months now, so this lines up well.
Dave: Yes. Thank you. Thank you. I'm excited to do this. I've never done a podcast before. So, yay.
Danielle: All right. Well, I'm excited that this is your first time. So I thought it might be good for, you know, our audience is people that grew up here and have moved out. I've had people reach out to me that, you know, they're very nostalgic about having grown up here and they reach out. Our audience is people that live here now and also people that are thinking about moving here so that they can get an idea of what the neighborhood's like.
Danielle: And so I thought it might be good to let everyone know a little bit of the backstory to Parkway in Motion. How did it get started? How did the the original idea kick off? So people can have a little bit of a history to where you started and and then we'll get into where you are now.
Dave: Okay. Sure. Yeah. Happy to happy to discuss that. So the the the idea for what became Parkway in Motion really probably started back in like 1998. And that was with Ryan Mason who was a founder and it was his original you know was his brainchild. Park Ram, which was his brainchild back in the day. And what he wanted to do was, you know, we were off in school and people were spread out and he would have basketball tournaments, three-on-three basketball tournaments, get everybody together, and you know, there would probably be some kind of charitable purpose to it, like we were donating money to something.
Dave: So, he's raising money for some cause, get a whole bunch of people together who don't see each other as much anymore. And then from there, we would that almost became like an annual thing. And then we added or like a holiday havoc flag football tournament which would be the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Danielle: Yep.
Dave: And so it would be all guys and girls getting back together around Thanksgiving and playing flag football. So that that went on for a long time and then probably maybe you know we stopped playing flag football and then we started we had a couple of years where we did like a community reunion night which was the night before Thanksgiving sort of after that phase where you no longer going out in town right too old for that but maybe don't have a ton of kids at home yet and so you could still do something the night before Thanksgiving.
Dave: So we did that for a couple of years and then we decided to form a corporation and so we formed Parkway in Motion Inc. In 2010. So we filed our paperwork and became an organization and got our 501c3 status with a charitable purpose and and the idea being you know when we grow up and and it's still true today like there could be tons of kids on your block and none of them might go to school together, right?
Dave: And so like you know people from your neighborhood and and you know people from your kids on different sports teams, but the idea was like we need to get everybody together and mix everybody together from the community through these different events. And so that was sort of the idea when we st first started the organization back in 2010 which sort of transitioned from getting all of us back together to now bringing families together and connecting families new new com new families and old families from the neighborhood and and getting everybody together in that sort of social setting.
Danielle: Right. Right. Yeah. Awesome. And so you became president about 10 years ago.
Dave: About 10 years ago. Yeah. And Ryan, you know, Ryan, all the credit to him. He had so many different ideas and wanted to do so many different things with the organization. Yeah, I became president 10 years ago. Since then, we've done a whole bunch of different events. We used to do, you know, we started the trick-or-treat event probably 12 or 14 years ago. We used to do community night where we gave out scholarships and that was always a great night.
Dave: Different scholarship applications. The last couple years we haven't done community night, but we did we did a holiday night for two years in a row. We'd love to bring that back. We just haven't been able to find the space. We'd love to get the Irish social club back but we haven't been able to get that around the holidays again. But that's the event that we really enjoy instead of, you know, we didn't charge an admission fee or anything like that, but we wanted people to bring gift cards, right?
Dave: And then we donated gift cards to families local families in need. And then also to the Home for Little Wanderers as well, right?
Danielle: Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. I remember some of the earlier events and being in Ryan's garage like filling Easter egg or golf bags or something, you know. And a lot of volunteer hours. It was always a lot of fun though just to hang out and do that to be honest. I mean even that was getting people together and right like-minded mission-minded people and so that was always fun and but now you have kids that can do that.
Dave: That's right. That's right. And now now my kids are all in high school too, right? So you so now I my kids all volunteer at the events, right? So now they're it's a it's you know it's a continued evolution, you know, have these events. We'd put these events on when my kids would be participants in them and now they're the volunteers staffing them. Spreading the eggs, helping kids get eggs, and then at the trick-or-treat event, you know, staffing the corners along Centre Street, helping kids cross the street, that type of thing.
Danielle: So, I love that. And like they see you donating so much of your time and expertise to this and organization skills and things like that and they're able to build those things for themselves, which is wonderful.
Dave: I hope so. I hope so. And I think what they see is that, you know, I think we have a great community, right? West Roxbury, Roslindale. It's a great community and you know, you volunteered a lot. Ronnie volunteered a lot. We have we've had a whole string of volunteers when our kids were all little. Now, we've got new volunteers, too. Right. And so, like now the last five years, six years or so, Katelyn Doherty's been involved for I don't 10 15 years.
Dave: So, she's still heavily involved and a huge help to the organization. She does a lot for the organization, right? And then, but Anthony Sherzy and Tom Timmons are very heavily involved as well. Team West and the three of them are always helping at all the events whether it's the trick-or-treat event or the Easter egg hunt or the or the golf tournament or the holiday event. So it's great.
Dave: So now we've got this new crop and they're not new now. They've been there for five or six years helping but they're very instrumental in carrying on the mission of Parkway in Motion.
Danielle: Right. That's awesome. It's quite an evolution.
Dave: I'm grateful for them.
Danielle: What events do are you guys running now throughout the year? Like what for 2026 what was on the docket?
Dave: Yep. So, we had the Easter egg hunt at Westie High. The I think it was this it might have been the day before Easter this year. I forget the date which is always it's always you know Easter moves with the calendar and then we have it up on the the football field up at at West Roxbury High and that has its own climate. So, you know, you can get up there.
Dave: We get up there and spread the eggs and then the wind comes and starts blowing all the eggs across the field and you know so that
Danielle: It's so true. It is so windy out there.
Dave: It's so windy. It's a great event. You know, we get a DJ and we've we get you know, donuts and coffee and things like that. And that that event is interesting because it's over really quickly. You'll have 20,000 eggs, right? You might remember these days and they're gone in under five minutes.
Danielle: Oh, yeah.
Dave: Yeah. You know, some people some kids got five buckets, some kids are crying, they've got three. It's great. Right. And sometimes we hear we're like, "Well, it's not really a hunt." I'm like, "Well, I know. It's more of a scramble." We don't want to lose kids in the woods. So,
Danielle: Right. Exactly.
Dave: Exactly. So we did that one and we we had a huge turnout. We usually we probably had between 1,200 and 1500 kids.
Danielle: Wow.
Dave: Huge turnout. And we always get a great video from up in the stands of like when we say go and then all the kids run out. This year we had a little bit of a breach cuz there was a few I brought my girls out with me to do the countdown which they've done you know a 10-second countdown. We have the Easter Bunny out there was you know swinging his cane and then this year a couple of kids when the Easter Bunny was dancing onto the field they started to follow him and then the line broke.
Dave: It was wild. The line broke and there was no no putting the cat back in the bag. It was like okay what's happening.
Danielle: Oh my gosh that's so cute.
Dave: So, we did that whenever that was, March or April. Then we had the Parkway Cup. The Parkway Cup is our golf tournament. That's we've been doing that for probably near 20 years now. We used to pit different neighborhoods against each other where foursomes from West Roxbury versus Roslindale versus Hyde Park and then, you know, the the the winning team from or the winning neighborhood got the Parkway Cup.
Dave: We don't do it like that anymore. West Roxbury kept winning so it wasn't really fun us Roslindale natives so we changed the format and now it's just a just a regular golf tournament but we we used to have two courses for five years in a row we filled Franklin Park and George Wright and we'd have 288 golfers
Danielle: Wow
Dave: And it was fantastic and a lot of fun but also a lot of work managing two golf courses and then you have to have the afterparty someplace else if you want to get everybody together right so now we just do George Wright And you know, it's it's an amazing golf course.
Danielle: That's a great barroom area after with the patio and everything, too.
Dave: Exactly. The city's done a really great job with the course and with the patio. And so, it's a great space to hang out after, right? And have our our dinner and our raffle and things like that. And we fill it every year. We still have, you know, it sells out. We still have 144 golfers. So, two portions in every hole. So, we did that in July.
Dave: And then our next event is the trick-or-treat Centre Street which is our which is our big fall event which we've been doing for now probably about 10 or 15 years. Started off the first year you might remember we we went from St. Theresa's up street and yeah and then another year we came from Holy Name and then for for a long time we were going from Billings Field.
Dave: We've got a DJ down there. The playground's there. It's not easy to necessarily get on the Centre Street route. So last year with the renovation and the construction of Billings Field, we had to relocate our home base. So we went to the Hastings Street lot.
Danielle: Mhm.
Dave: And that was actually a really great spot. We we partnered with Main Streets with West Roxbury Main Streets and Lindsey was great helping us get the permits and securing everything we needed from the city. And so we're going to do the same thing this year on Halloween, October 31st from the Hastings Street lot. We've got our DJ secured. We're putting all the pieces in place.
Dave: We're just waiting the final approval from the city, right, to make sure we get the the right permits. And then when you go to the city to do these, they have this like Hollywood Squares thing with all the different departments on the screen asking, do you have this, do you have this? And then so, you know, it's it should be pretty straightforward because we're not, you know, we don't have anything, we're not really serving food.
Dave: We might have pizza or something like that, candy, but not, you know, so so yeah, October 31st, probably an 11:00 a.m. Start. Like I said, this is all pending approve final permit in the city. But from the Hastings Street lot and what made it easier than Billings is Billings you sort of you have to go out by the core of it and you only can go in one direction, but Hastings Street Lot you can go both directions, right?
Dave: And you can cross the street as well.
Danielle: So and that's good for people that maybe don't want to do the whole up and down route and
Dave: Exactly. Yeah.
Danielle: Right. But they can still be a part of it there. And then you know they also are are they're closer to the businesses on Centre Street too. And so I know people that went to lunch last year, went to Sugar, went to Real Deal or or you know went to a great like walking holiday for a town for sure.
Dave: Right. So, and we do have people ask, you know, when can, you know, that are not on the route and how they can participate. And we usually just say like, you know, we don't the route doesn't go by you, but if you want to come put a table, not in the lot, but on the sidewalk in front of the lot, that's generally what we suggest people do when they're not on the route because we can't we can't really alter the route, you know?
Dave: Right. Right. We can tell people to go further, but they they may not. And so, it's probably easier, right? You know, set a table up close.
Danielle: Yeah. You've got to kind of cap it somewhere. We were never on the route, but we would go to Hastings Street Lot when it wasn't there and there would be, you know, businesses in there. So,
Dave: Right. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So, we're looking forward to it as as long as the weather cooperates. The last couple years we've had great weather and that really makes the turnout. I think two years ago we had near we get close to 2,000 people.
Danielle: Wow. I was just going to ask you how many people come through. Wow, that's a lot.
Dave: And the way we judge it, we like we we ask people to sign up online. And then you know, you don't have to because it it's just a sort of a way for us to estimate how many people are coming. We can tell the BPD how many people are expecting and yeah, it's going to and like tell the businesses the same thing. And so usually last year I think we had or maybe last year we had over a thousand people sign up online.
Danielle: Wow.
Dave: Then we sort of estimate from that when we see because then I'll you know half of my friends were like, "Oh, I didn't know I needed to register." I'm like, "Well, you don't." But we would be nice if he did.
Danielle: It would be helpful because the businesses need to know how much candy to buy.
Dave: For sure. Exactly. Exactly.
Danielle: Wow. That has grown crazy.
Dave: Yeah. And it's great the community, you know, we usually have near universal participation from businesses on Centre Street. Maybe there's occasionally someone who's like, "Oh, I'm not open on Saturdays." Or like Starbucks has participated sometimes, but sometimes that they need a manager approval, that type of thing.
Danielle: Right. They're a big corporate organization and not as easy for them,
Dave: But we we have universal participation.
Danielle: That's so great. So yeah, that's very we have such a good business and community like we do. We do showing here. So great.
Dave: So that's the only other event so right now planned for 2026. We'd love to get a holiday event back going again. You know the two the last year I think we did it was 24 or 23 but we had about 650 people and so that really the Irish Social Club is the only venue local venue that can have that many people. And so we're hoping we can try to get back in there for that event because that's a really that was a fun event.
Danielle: Yeah, it really was. That was always one of my favorites.
Dave: Yeah. So and it was you know we gave the community so generous. We collected like $5 or $6 thousand in gift cards to give out to the Home for Little Wanderers and to some
Danielle: That's amazing.
Dave: It's Yeah, it was really
Danielle: That's great. Really an amazing total. Well, that sounds exciting. I hope that maybe if you book it now for 2027, you can have it for the for that.
Dave: Yeah, it's a good idea.
Danielle: So, I mean, when people are moving into this area, you're one of the mailing lists that I'm telling people to get on for that reason. Like, it's a way to like get involved, whether you want to volunteer, if you have older children that maybe need volunteer hours or want to meet kids their age that are, you know, doing things in the community. If you have little kids, it's a great way to like get, you know, them some activities to do and stuff like that.
Danielle: Are you surprised by how the neighborhood has responded to all your events over the years?
Dave: No. No. It's always been a great neighborhood. Like a like a real there's a real sense of community here, right? Like people looking out for each other, people want to see each other, people wanting to get together. And so, no, we've always been I mean, we've always been very grateful and maybe maybe amazed at the level of generosity from the community, but not necessarily surprised.
Danielle: Right. Right.
Dave: You know, that's sort of part of where we grew up. There's a strong sense of community here.
Danielle: So, yeah, absolutely. Which is great.
Dave: And we wanted to keep that going.
Danielle: Yeah. Yeah. And then you also have LKE kind of like as a parallel
Dave: That's right. Yeah.
Danielle: To Parkway in Motion. Yeah. So, do you want to tell everyone about that? I know Julie's kind of one of the forerunners on that, but let you fill in for her.
Dave: Sure. Yeah. Right. I don't want to steal her thunder, but LKE, which is, you know, stands for legs, kegs, and eggs, is a women's fitness event, usually the first Sunday in January, right after the new year. And there's a typically a 5K run and a yoga class or some kind of fitness class at the Y. I think last year they did a 5K run and then the the yoga class I think was hosted was run by Mary Rush, I think.
Danielle: Okay.
Dave: Yeah. And I think generally they have between 80 80 and 100 women participate. That's the legs portion and then there's a the kegs and eggs portion is back at West after. Who who's always been a great partner and they're always happy to host that event. And so that's that's very nice. And so then everyone goes there after. We really cram in that room.
Danielle: Cram in that room. Right. Exactly. And I do want to interject. You don't have to run. There's many people. Do you don't have to run.
Dave: You do not have to run. You can go directly to west.
Danielle: You don't have to do anything. I've done that before, too.
Dave: That's right. That's right. There's there's no judgment. It's a judgment free zone. But I think, you know, people really like that event. And then the the the fundraising that goes on there. You know, it's sort of like we don't advertise who needs the money or what who's getting the money. And then so they raise a bunch of money and then there's always families in need in the Parkway area that you might not know about but we sometimes hear about and so then that money that's that's raised that day is then given given to families that we we've learned about that are in need, right?
Danielle: And I kind of like that it's like secret squirrel a little bit, right? Cuz like you know not everyone wants their stuff out in the open like you know GoFundMes and stuff are great but they're very visible and very public and this is a way for us to be well not us I mean like you guys to or the community in general to be like just take this right it's all good
Dave: That's exactly right that's exactly right and it's I think last year they broke $10,000 raised
Danielle: Yeah which is a lot of money So generous. That's wonderful.
Dave: So then I think there were four or five families that got $2,000 or $2,500.
Danielle: That's wonderful. Very really. You guys are such a great organization and it really is backed by just some of the most generous people that are always looking to give give and and so I'm not surprised, you know, that it's done so well. So all right, tell us trick-or-treat. Let's just get everyone the details. Is there a registration online yet or you're waiting for the permit?
Dave: Waiting for the permit. I didn't want to Okay. Sort of count my chickens before they hatch type of thing, right? And so, the the website actually our website's a little funky today. I actually checked in with our web administrator earlier to to update it a little bit. So, I think we'll get that registration link up soon. I'm usually the one on the back end, but I am not an IT person.
Dave: So, I had to reach out for some professional help today. Okay. So, she said she migrated to a new server and so she's going to update it. So, yeah. So, we should we'll we'll we'll once we confirm the permitting process is all set. We will put it out on our social media on Instagram and Facebook. Okay. Include a a link to our website which will have the page with the details of the event and a registration link to sign up.
Dave: Right. Like I said, you don't need to sign up. It's just for us to sort of keep a head count.
Danielle: Please do.
Dave: But please do. Right. So we can say, "All right." And you know, we're gonna we get pizza. Comella's always donates pizza, which is great.
Danielle: I know. They're so generous, too.
Dave: So generous. And so it's nice to be able to say when they say, "How many pizzas do you need?" And it's like, you know, we have a rough idea of how many people are coming. So we appreciate that. We'll have a DJ. We'll have extra candy. I hope everybody brings their own trick-or-treat bags. We'll have some. But we we'll probably run out.
Danielle: We'll probably run out.
Dave: Exactly. Exactly. So yeah, and we'll probably have some arts and crafts that we may not do in the Hastings Street lot, but they're more handout arts and crafts. Maybe masks or something like that. Okay. That's always a good thing to staff some of our teenage volunteers to do.
Danielle: Yeah, it's helpful.
Dave: Yeah, and we'll have pizza. Haven't confirmed that with Comella's, but you know, typically we have pizza from Comella's. Yeah, we'll have excess candy. It usually runs from about 11 to 12:30, one o'clock.
Danielle: Okay. So, you know, if you're not participating in the trick-or-treat event, you should. But if you're not and you're driving down Centre Street, the traffic will be just avoid it.
Dave: Yeah. Just avoid it for a couple hours, right?
Danielle: All right. I wanted to make sure I got all those details in there. Thank you. Because I know this this episode's going to come out about two weeks, three weeks before. So people will by hopefully by then maybe the website will be have the permit and I mean you'll have the permit and the website will be all set.
Dave: So right I don't think have any issues with the permit. I'm not expecting any issues with the permit but you know it's just going to go through its process.
Danielle: Yeah. As long as they haven't changed anything but like you said it is a little bit like you know go to the fourth floor, yell a name. Yes. Run to the counter, pay a bill. It's kind of all over the place.
Dave: So, we jumped on Zoom last year and there were like nine different departments with questions like the the MBTA was like this. I'm like I don't I don't have I don't know what this has to do with you know things like that like so like all kinds of different questions. I'm like no not doing that. So yeah.
Danielle: Oh my gosh. Too funny.
Dave: It's pretty funny. And then you know for it's also you know the lot is a municipal lot and so the city wants to know when you need to shut down right to put up signs and put up the horses. So that or the to keep people out people enough notice they so they're not in there and getting having kids party around their car. Exactly.
Dave: Exactly.
Danielle: So consider this your notice if you're listening. Don't park there morning and walk away.
Dave: Exactly.
Danielle: So one question I had was if you look back at all the events that you guys have done I have well two questions. My first is, is there something you're no longer doing that you miss that you'd love to bring back besides the holiday party community night? Because we already kind of talked about that. And then my second question was, do you have like a favorite moment from any of the events that you'd want to share?
Dave: That those are great questions. I think the the event I like the holiday event and the community night, that is the event I would want to bring back. For a long time. We did the community night with the the scholarships and the first responder awards and that that was I thought that was really fun. I really enjoyed that. You know, you usually have an MC, you know, whether it was John Tobin or somebody else and then, you know, we sort of would give out awards and then sort of give the state of the Parkway in Motion and talk about the different people in the community, first responders that we were giving awards to.
Dave: And then we had the scholarship piece which we did the Kennedy scholarship which was in in memory of Michael Kennedy who passed away in 2014 firefighter and passed away in the Back Bay fire. And those applications that was a $5,000 scholarship and some of those applications were really really wild like really impressive applications. I don't remember the the and I can't remember his name who played the guitar and they came and played it.
Danielle: Yes.
Dave: Right. I don't remember his name, but that was incredible.
Danielle: Yes. Very impressive. Oh my gosh.
Dave: Yes. And then we had the Parkway Pride scholarships where you know those were $1,000 scholarships. Again, a lot of money. And we just had kids show like what they were what was their Parkway Pride, what were they doing in the community. And so we'd get all these interesting submissions with like poster boards or essays about the different sports they do or where they volunteer or dancing or artwork.
Dave: And it was I really enjoyed that. That that was really fun. It was a lot of work, right? You've got to get a scholarship committee together and you got to review these. You get the hall and the DJ and the food and all this stuff. And then so we we didn't do that for a while. We did it in 2021. But you know, people are going in a million different directions and so it's hard.
Dave: And so then we pivoted to the holiday event for two years and and so that that that type of event where we're getting everybody from the community and the kids together. I'd like to see something. I'd like to bring that back.
Danielle: All right, I'll let I'll let you say that one. You mentioned the running club when we were chatting earlier. Thought I thought you'd get out your running shoes.
Dave: Oh, the running club. I Yeah, Debb Runl ran that and she did such a great job.
Danielle: Yeah, she's great.
Dave: That was great. I I guess one of the things I will say about Parkway in Motion is we're all volunteer. Like, nobody gets paid. And so, like, you know, so many people are generous with their time, but then there are different demands of life. And so, nothing, you know, sometimes we have to change our events and do different things, right? We used to run different flag football tournaments or we'd run a bean pot.
Danielle: Oh, the hockey. Yes.
Dave: Yeah, we do that. I used We used to have a men's basketball league for
Danielle: Yes, that's right. Ronnie was a big member of that was really fun.
Dave: We don't do that anymore.
Danielle: You guys have aged out of some of these.
Dave: Aged out. That's probably for the best.
Danielle: That's probably for the best.
Dave: We did have a couple of cornhole tournaments for a few years in a row which we did.
Danielle: Yeah, that's a little more speed now, maybe.
Dave: Exactly. So maybe we'll start a bowling league or something.
Danielle: Shuffle board or something. Right.
Dave: Exactly. Bridge or something like that. And that you know that also like we do some senior programming now, right? And so we are
Danielle: Oh, I love that. All right. I didn't even know that.
Dave: Yeah. So we are we get a grant from the state for senior programming. There's a big need for there's a lot of seniors in our area and there's a big need for senior programming. And so we get a big grant from the state and we partner with Ethos and we do senior programming at the Elks Lodge on Morrill Street and Ethos runs it. They get a lot of visitors.
Dave: They have all kinds of great programming whether it's like different educational workshops or like chair yoga or wellness workshops. They have lunch. They have guest speakers. They have tech tutorials. It's really and they've got I you know I I don't want to misquote the numbers but something like 500 unique visitors. In the past 24 months I think. So right, it's very impressive. Ethos does a great job.
Dave: So we get the grant and then we we we contract that out to Ethos. So it's you know it was Representative Ed Coppinger's idea initially and then Billy MacGregor is is carrying it on. So we're very we're grateful for that too.
Danielle: Yeah, that's great. Yeah. Oh, I learned something new today. Yeah. Well, I always try to tie in something real estate related and being that we were talking about Trick-or-Treat Centre Street, I was thinking about Halloween and so I thought it might be interesting to share with everyone that so at first I was like, what haunted houses are around West Roxbury, which there there aren't really any.
Danielle: There's lack of haunted houses around here. When I was in high school that was a thing to do and so I thought we could share but there's really they're they're still down in like Abington where I used to go. But then I thought from a real estate standpoint and you might not know this but under Massachusetts law sellers and agents are not legally required to voluntarily disclose that a property is considered stigmatized or psychologically impacted.
Danielle: Wow. Did you know that?
Dave: I did not know that.
Danielle: No, I did know that because I had to I had to know that to pass my class, but I didn't think that the general public knew it. So, I thought I would dig into a little bit. It includes supernatural claims. So, parapsychological or supernatural phenomenon like haunted houses and ghosts and stuff in houses, we do not have to say, but if somebody asks us, we do have to be honest and disclose properly.
Danielle: So, if somebody says, "I think there's a ghost in my house," and somebody asks me, I have to say, "Yes, my sellers think there is a ghost in this house." I technically I I try not to ask because I don't know that I want to know that answer while I'm in the house by myself, but I thought, you know, you people might want to know if they do want to know this info, they do need to ask if there's any kind of potential stigma, and we do need to answer honestly.
Danielle: But maybe people want to know, maybe they don't. I'm not sure. I thought I'd give a shout out to my friend Tiffany Rice who is a medium. So if you are not sure and you want to know, maybe we could reach out to Tiffany and see if she can come in and take a look and who also has a fantastic podcast by the way. But with that being said, there are not many, you know, haunted houses that you can go pay and go through and get a scare from very close to here.
Danielle: Did you used to go to them when you were in high school or, you know, even taking the kids now?
Dave: Not when I was in high school, but last year we were up in Lincoln, New Hampshire. Yeah. They have a haunted house at the theater there, and it was great. It was creepy. Very creepy.
Danielle: All right. Well, road trip.
Dave: We did take the kids to what's it called? Fright Fest or something at Six Flags once.
Danielle: Yeah, that was fun.
Dave: Yeah. And then two, three years ago, we were out in the Berkshires in Jiminy Peak does an amazing haunted house like out
Danielle: Really. Yeah. At the Oh, all right.
Dave: At the lodge and then you take the chairlift up and walk through the woods in the dark.
Danielle: Oh, that's creepy.
Dave: It was pretty creepy.
Danielle: I might have to do that. Yeah, that's pretty Yeah, it was pretty That's nuts. Well, I guess we got to travel, but there's some good ones at least in New England. So Dave, thank you again for a really fun conversation. You know, chatting with you today is a reminder of how great our community is and how generous our community is and how we really have people willing to like step up and carry on traditions and have, you know, unique organizations like Parkway in Motion evolve over time and become like a real staple around here and have your signature events that are so important to the community.
Danielle: It's why it makes, you know, West Roxbury just feel like home, our little neighborhood in the city, and I I really appreciate all the work that you do. So, I encourage everyone to grab a costume and come out for Trick-or-Treat Centre Street once they see the announcements. Can you let everybody know your Facebook and Instagram handles and and things like that?
Dave: Yep. We were at Parkway in Motion on Instagram and same on Facebook.
Danielle: Easy. All right. Very easy.
Dave: Yeah, this is parkwayinmotion.org for the website. Yep. Thank you so much for having me. This is a great conversation. I love what you're doing. This is this is really great. Thank you. Good.
Danielle: Thank you. I appreciate that. And everybody, as always, if you are, you know, listening and you want to live in such a fantastic community that we have here, you know where to reach us at parkway re or parkway.realestate on the web. So, thanks Dave. Thanks for listening everyone. See you next time.
Dave: Okay. Bye.
Danielle: Thank you for joining us. Stay tuned for more insightful episodes of the Parkway RE podcast with your host Danielle O'Brien.