This is my ‘busy’ charity season. In fairly rapid succession I have the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes, Blue Jeans for Babies and the Gateway Community College Awards Dinner.
I am very lucky. How many people have a TV station to ‘give away.’ Starting this afternoon I’ll be plugging the JDRF walk this weekend. Can I get more people to show up – get them more money for research? I don’t know, but I’d like to try.
Same thing with the March of Dimes and Gateway. Can I raise awareness? Does that translate into money?
Who knows how long the television business, or any business, will remain community spirited? I have seen, with other charities I help, that as local companies are bought by out-of-towners¹ the commitment to local charity often dwindles.
Meanwhile, the JDRF walk is this Sunday. I have asked to borrow our copter and think I’ll get it, so we can get video and be at both Anthem Blue Cross in North Haven and Rocky Neck State Park. At this point, the weather looks good.
¹ – In recent entries I had talked about SNET being bought by SBC. As far as I know their charity commitment remains high. This is a different local utility which is no longer locally owned.
Our Stop&Shop team is ready for Sunday. We did a great job at the Cheshire S&S raising $ for JDRF. It’s amazing how much the communtiy gets involved. We had a booksale that is such a success every year, we must have collected over $2,000 with books that we marked either $1or $2 each. We had a ziti dinner, cutest baby contest, Hotdog& bake sales and sno cones. Plus a few other random things. Every year we look forward to all our fundraisers.