{"id":9135,"date":"2020-11-17T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=9135"},"modified":"2020-11-17T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T22:35:48","slug":"new-talk-show-makes-best-buddies-members-dreams-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2020\/11\/17\/new-talk-show-makes-best-buddies-members-dreams-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"New Talk Show Makes Best Buddies Member\u2019s Dreams a Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College\u2019s Best Buddies Club is a student organization whose mission is \u201cto establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).” In the club, which is made up of 41 students and several community members, students act as either Associate Buddies, who help with events, or Peer Buddies, who are matched one-on-one with an individual with an intellectual or developmental disability. They get together regularly each month, attend chapter-wide events, and contact each other weekly to build and maintain a long-lasting friendship.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Angela Carcella, a junior Early Childhood Education major, became involved with Best Buddies this year because she wanted to make a friendship that could last a lifetime. When she decided to be a Peer Buddy, she was matched with Tommy Levosky, who Carcella calls, \u201cone of the most amazing people in the world.\u201d Levosky works in the Marketplace, Etown\u2019s largest dining hall on campus, and he loves being a part of the Etown community.<\/p>\n

Before COVID-19 restrictions, Levosky was a part of the Etown radio station, as his dream job is to be a radio show host. This year, since she and Levosky are not able to be in the studio together, they have gotten creative with ways to keep his dream alive.<\/p>\n

Carcella and Levosky have launched launch a Zoom recorded and Instagram driven talk show called \u201cTominator\u2019s Talk of the Etown.\u201d The show will be led by Levosky and will feature different Etown students, athletes, professors, coaches, and staff.<\/p>\n

Levosky hopes that people listening to his show will learn that \u201cwe have awesome and cool people on campus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest things Carcella has learned from spending time with Levosky is that she should always enjoy the little things in life. Levosky\u2019s positive attitude and appreciation for small victories has brought light into her life, and she hopes his talk show will give him the ability to share that light with many others in the campus community.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cIn a time of unknown, Tommy is finding a way to stay happy and do things he loves even with restrictions,\u201d Carcella said. \u201cIf the community can share the joy Tommy has with doing his show, it could help to make these unexpected times a little less stressful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carcella and Levosky both hope that \u201cTominator\u2019s Talk of the Etown\u201d will encourage more people in the Elizabethtown College community to join the Best Buddies Club. Levosky believes more people should be involved because \u201cthey can make a difference in someone else\u2019s life by being a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Best Buddies is a way to highlight the colleges motto, \u2018educate for service,\u2019 because being a part of the club allows someone to give while they are still getting something in return,\u201d Carcella said. \u201cBest Buddies offers an amazing opportunity for college students by getting them involved in the local community and connecting them with outstanding people who fly under the radar.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can listen to the show on their Instagram account, @tominatorstalkoftheetown<\/a>, where they post every Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College\u2019s Best Buddies Club is a student organization whose mission is \u201cto establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).” In the club, which is made up of 41 students and several community members, students act as either […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":9136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-campus-community","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9141,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions\/9141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}