Radio Stations Raise Over $60,000 to Fight Childhood Cancer
KSAL Staff - Fri 07:57 PM 03/01/2013
The effort brought in $60,130.69.
A combined effort by two Salina Media Group radio stations brings in over $60,000 to help in the fight against childhood cancer.
Salina Media Group Radio Station Y 93.7, along with the help of sister station Sunny 102.5 from Manhattan, concluded a two-day radiothon Friday evening, raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
After all was said and done, a record $60,130.69 was collected. It is the most money the stations have ever collected, and the first time they have topped the $60,000 mark. Last year the effort brought in $55,367.44.
As part of the effort, children from fifteen area schools have been participating in the "Million Penny Challenge", competing to see who can collect the most pennies per pupil.
The top school was Bennington, where the students collected over 130,000 pennies. Bennington was followed very closely by Tescott and Lincoln.
As a reward, the students at Bennington will get to enjoy an all-school pizza party courtesy of Papa John's Pizza. During the party, the school will receive a traveling trophy to display for the next year.
All of the money raised will go to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering research and treatment of children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Ranked the No. 1 pediatric cancer hospital by Parents magazine and the No. 1 children's cancer hospital by U.S. News & World Report, St. Jude is the first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children.
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whatajoke
Friday 1 March 2013 22:39
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TheCleaner
Saturday 2 March 2013 01:27 Report this comment
not the proper story for this comment where is todd????????
staff
Saturday 2 March 2013 01:56
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jimdingo
Saturday 2 March 2013 07:07 Report this comment
Congrats to everyone involved. The results were amazing.
buckstay
Saturday 2 March 2013 12:39 Report this comment
Giving comes from the "HEART"! The way jobs and the economy are going and the great achievement shown with this fund raiser, it shows that we have some really great people digging in deep to help St. Judes research. Hopefully someday soon a cure will be found for cancer. AWESOME ACCOMPLISHMENT PEOPLE!
t--bone
Sunday 3 March 2013 02:03 Report this comment
Good cause but billions have been given with the hope that one day a cure would be found and still nothing. Just think if a cure was found today what that would do with our already fragile economy. How many people working on the cure would be without a job that is not counting all the others involved. But we all want to see the cure and will continue to donate.