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Bayshore raises $25,000!

garym — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:01:23 -0400

A big bravo to the talk-show crews and listeners at Bayshore's CFOS and 98; at 3pm Sept 6th they decided they had to do something, and by 11am the next morning they'd raised an astounding $25,000 for the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina fund.

Between 6-9 a.m., Marc Butuk, Jim Birchard & Fred Wallace encouraged 560 CFOS (Owen Sound, ON) morning show listeners to pledge over $14,000. This included a $5000 anonymous donation as well as a number of $1000 donations.
Later on that morning, 98 The Beach (Port Elgin, ON) listeners pledged over $11,000 to John Divinski on the Sounding Board. This included a $5000 donation from the Port Elgin Rotary Club.
[ via broadcastermagazine.com - Daily News - 9/28/2005 ]

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Buy your petrol NOW

garym — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:12:33 -0400

Noticed on our drive into Owen Sound this evening that all the pumps are selling gasoline at around $0.95 ... so we pulled in to top up the tank.

UPI on 10th told us we were right to fill 'er up now, because she's got orders to raise the marquee price to, you ready for this? $1.19 per litre at midnight tonight. "Due to the hurricane damage to the pipelines". Yeah right.

So if you're online now, get off that darn computer and go fill your tank. It's $0.96 at the UPI in Hepworth ...

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Dancing With Katrina

bub — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:32:45 -0400

To show you the power of the blog, and how so mainstream it has become, two reporters post via wireless from the storms aftermath.
You can read it HERE .

Near miss

garym — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:44:38 -0400

Ok, seems we're off the hook -- latest projections for katrina's path show the storm veering off, sliding down into the St. Lawrence basin heading straight for Kingston, only grazing Toronto, and missing us by a country mile.

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Bracing for Katrina

garym — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:57:43 -0400

Better check your sump pumps and tug your boat moorings: latest projections show Tropical Storm nee Hurricane Katrina is due to be pounding on our doorsteps roughly 1:00am this Wednesday, with heavy rains and winds up near 60km/hr rampaging across the whole of southern Ontario and on up into northern Quebec.

Said to be the most expensive natural disaster in US history and already being compared to the 1965 Hurricane Betsy and the previous heavyweight champ, Hurricane Andrew, but however bad it may get around these parts mid-week, it's a whole lot worse down in Louisiana ...

At least 100,000 people without means of transportation are believed to remain in the city, although some have made their way to "shelters of last resort" including the Superdome. The government made no attempt to assist the evacuation of those without automobiles. It is worried that if the city floods, it will be nearly impossible to get them out of the shelters, leaving tens of thousands of Americans at risk of death over the coming days.
[ via Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia ]