Mix 101.5 Children's Hospital Radio-Thon kicks off Tuesday
An annual drive to help Duke Children's Hospital ended Thursday evening when with the presentation of a check for more than $1 million to the hospital.
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MIX 101.5 WRAL-FM morning show hosts Bill Jordan and Lynda Loveland went on the air from the hospital's lobby at 6 a.m. Tuesday. Volunteers, including local college students, staffed a phone bank until 6 p.m. Thursday.
In the end, donors gave $1031,431 to help out the hospital. That brings the radio-thon's 15-year total to $10,749,291.
Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski and other local celebrities stopped by to visit with radio show hosts and volunteers working at the hospital during the radio-thon.
The "Change Bandit" program also let people drop off their spare coins in the lobby of Duke Children's Hospital, 2301 Erwin Road, during the radio-thon.
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