Preparing for Battle!

"12 Hours for a Cure" is coming soon to this radio station! It is a little over a month away!The battle lines have been drawn and 1270 WHEO is preparing to lead a major offensive in the war against cancer! The WHEO staff and management urge you to mark your calendar for May 18, 2007, and join our forces as we wage war against this dreaded disease that has devastated countless families in our community and robbed many of us of our dearest loved ones.

"12 Hours for a Cure," an all-day, sunrise to sunset, radio-thon, will originate at and be broadcast from the WHEO studios at 3824 Wayside Rd., Stuart, VA, on Friday, May 18th from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. It will be an old style radio-thon in the great tradition established by Sunshine Jim Litten and his staff when the Litten's owned this station. WHEO will suspend all regular programming that day and conduct a day-long fund raiser to benefit the American Cancer Society's Patrick County Relay for Life 2007, a family and community event which will take place the following day, Saturday, May 19th at DeHart Park in Stuart.

"12 Hours for a Cure," will be presented by the WHEO Relay for Life team, the Kilowatts for a Cure in Memory of Sandra Rogers. Our team, like many of the other teams around our county, is dedicating its efforts to the memory of a dear person and community servant who has died of cancer. I would like to thank my fellow employees at WHEO for joining me in honoring the memory of "My Sweetie," Sandra Merritt Rogers, a loving wife, mother, educator, friend and faithful Christian lady who died of cancer on July 25, 2006. Sandra was an avid supporter of Relay for Life and raised thousands of dollars for the fight against cancer as a Relay participant and principal of Woolwine Elementary School. I invite other community civic groups, churches, businesses, and organizations to form your own Relay for Life teams in honor and memory of your loved ones, or to support teams that are already conducting individual fund-raisers in our community in preparation for the Relay for Life event at DeHart Park. Most importantly, please support this effort with your heartfelt prayers.

The "12 Hours for a Cure" broadcast on WHEO will feature live entertainment by many of your favorite local performers. Stay tuned to WHEO (12 AM) and keep a check on this website in weeks to come for details about the performers who will give of their time and talents to fight cancer. During the radio-thon, we will also share the touching stories of many cancer survivors and caregivers, talk with American Cancer Society workers at the regional and local levels, interview state and local leaders and other dignitaries, inform the public about progress in the effort to find a cure, publicize cancer prevention information, and discuss programs for cancer victim's that are funded by money raised at the local level as well as vital cancer research. We will also ask that your support the fight against cancer with your monetary donations, which are tax deductible. Operators will be on duty from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the day of the radio-thon, May 18th, to accept your pledged contributions. To make a pledge, please call 694-3388 or 694-3114 or bring your contribution to the radio station. You may also mail donations to WHEO, 3824 Wayside Rd., Stuart, Va. 24171. Please give as you feel led by God and your desire to eradicate this disease.

As part of our May 18th "12 Hours for a Cure," presentation, WHEO will hold Open House throughout the day. We invite citizens from throughout Patrick County and surrounding areas to visit our studios, fellowship with our staff and your neighbors, and enjoy free refreshments in a show of support and unity in this battle against a disease that affects us all as a community when it afflicts just one of us!

"12 Hours for a Cure," an all-day, all-out assault on cancer, is coming to 1270 WHEO, the Heart of Patrick County, on Friday, May 18th from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Spread this information to others in our community by word of mouth. Then listen, visit the radio station during this 12 hour broadcast and open house, and be a part of this team effort to help find a cure for cancer and alleviate the suffering it causes! It will be a touching, informative, productive and victorious day to be sure!

For information on how you can get involved in Relay for Life and the fight against cancer, please call Richard Rogers at 694-3114, and keep monitoring WHEO and this website. The most important way that you can support WHEO "12 Hours for a Cure" and the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life in Patrick County is to raise your hands to Heaven in prayer for this community-wide effort.

God bless this community undertaking and all of you who support this cause.

Richard