KICX 91.7 Camps For Cans

Brad Hulme:

"An R-V… a dining tent… a fake fire… and a freak April Sudbury Snowstorm!"

Lucky for KICX 91.7 morning man Hulme the “campsite” was set up INSIDE the New Sudbury Shopping Centre.

Brad & Shannon began in Centre Court at 5:30 am last Monday and before the morning was up, Brad had vowed he wasn’t going to leave the mall until the dining tent was full of food donations for the downtown Elgin Street Mission.

Well, 2 sleeps later and KICX listeners showed why they are the best listeners in Greater Sudbury as they came out in force and donated ONE AND A HALF TONS of food AND more than 3-thousand dollars!

The real winner was the Elgin Street Mission, a downtown mission providing 100,000 warm and nutritious meals a year to the homeless and disadvantaged in Sudbury.

Congrats to the whole KICX Crew, the New Sudbury Shopping Centre, and especially KICX listeners for making “Camping for Cans” such a HUGE success!

(an ongoing series) Why I Love Radio

1. WYCT-ADX/Pensacola’s Melinda Bowden hit a home run last Thursday. She got a call as she began at 10am about family who's mother is from Honduras and she is terminally ill. The story had been on WEAR-TV for a few weeks because they have been trying to get her kids from Honduras to the states to see her for Christmas and ultimately before she passed. The state department approved their Visas on the Thursday morning, but the cost of the flight was nearly $3,000.00. Melinda aired the original call back about how people could make a donation... By the end of her shift at 2p... she had raised nearly $4,100.00 and the children arrived in Pensacola Christmas Eve at 930p from Honduras... She did good radio!

The Cat Country evening personality completes the story:

“On Christmas Eve my family and I were invited by the family to the airport to greet the sons as they arrived in Pensacola. What an honor! I was humbled and encouraged by the love that surrounded that family, the nurses and my own family in the airport that night. A Christmas miracle indeed! As a result, my determination and love for radio was renewed. I was reminded that one voice can touch many, many people. I thank God that this time, he chose mine.”

2. Jack Latimer, PD/Morning co-host at Larche’s KICX/Barrie-Orillia-Midland also had one of those great moments on radio this week that worked so well with the Christmas season.

"After we did this break listeners were calling and crying on the phone about this being what Christmas is all about."

3. 92.3 WIL and "Cornbread's Kids Crusade" Raised Over $260,000 for St. Louis Children's Hospital.

"Thank you for supporting our efforts to provide St. Louis Children's Hospital with a life-saving Mobile Intensive Care Unit."

4. Bonneville's WUBE/Cincinnati's listeners have been saluting their family and friends who are in the military over the Holidays.

Bringing people together to do good things, bigger things than any ONE of us can do alone is that makes this season so special and radio does it better than any other medium!

I am so proud to be in RADIO. If you've been up to something you're proud of, please let me hear about it.