Dracut Forum

Busy with the holiday, I didn’t get to note last week about this Christmas Present that the Lowell Sun political column left to Bob Cox:
FOR DRACUT Selectman Robert Cox: a parade for the Dracut High School football team complete with Boston Duck Boats on Beaver Brook and a wide open Broadway Road with neon signs [...]

From years gone by, a favorite Christmas event was the annual reading of Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
This was Jerry’s annual Christmas present to his listeners - a reading of the Dylan Thomas poem. By this time, WRKO’s Bill Smith added sound effects and music to the presentation. Jerry said, “it was just [...]

 

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I don’t think any of us really believed that we would make it.
Two weeks, two storms.. power out, phone lines out… yet ultimately the tally shows about $77,000 raised during the Salvation Army Radiothon. Other funds will still come in from remote kettle locations and further donations.
It was a real team effort.. everyone was welcome [...]

The Lowell Sun
With Friday morning came the ice storm. Like many others in town, my power was knocked out. It didn’t really bother me. I was a scout; I’ve been out camping in worse… so I toughed it out.

OK, the fact is, I called a few hotels. No room at the inn, but I just [...]

Giving charity another try
By Christopher Scott, cscott@lowellsun.com
LOWELL — The good guys who ran Saturday’s Salvation Army Radiothon on WCAP couldn’t be happier, even though their fundraising efforts fell short by about $40,000.
“Considering most folks were either worrying about getting their electricity back or were cleaning up tree limbs, we were very excited about raising about [...]

Repeats this Saturday morning, the 20th, at 6am and goes until noon and maybe longer.

It’s the 12th edition of my annual Salvation Army radiothon on 980 WCAP and it couldn’t be more important. Three hundred new families have found it necessary to reach out to the army for help and overall, demand for services has [...]