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10/30: Q100 needs more letters/ Keyshia Cole
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Q100’s Bert Show has fallen about 75,000 letters short of its goal to reach 375,000 hand-written thank you letters for U.S. overseas troops in time for Thanksgiving. They will likely start to send out letters soon anyway, guaranteeing fighting men and women in battle zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan will get letters for sure. But the station would still like to hit 375K and is giving listeners another day or two to get pen and paper out.
Host Bert Weiss said he was frustrated they didn’t reach the goal but he’s hoping people will rally and finish up the final 75,000 by Wednesday. You can get more info here.. This idea was spawned earlier this month and it took only 10 days to compile 300,000 letters, still an impressive total.
The national Fox News Channel visited the studio Wednesday morning to report about the effort. “If this doesn’t get us over the hump, nothing will,” Bert noted on the air. Bert said they’ll be hanging in for hours.
And an fyi: I wrote a couple of stories for the print edition about the BET show “Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is.” The second season of the show about the R&B singer and her family starts tonight. Keyshia lives in Alpharetta so you’ll see plenty of Atlanta sights during the show.
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