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2022 RACE UPDATES & HIGHLIGHTS
1) Clifton Donut Shop waiting for you at the finish line.
2) Runner’s choice premium quarter zip or long-sleeve.
3) Run the 7th Annual Louisville Hungry Turkey
Proceeds benefit the WHAS Crusade for Children.
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THANKSGIVING MORNING
Race Day
7:30 a.m. Packet Pick Up Open
8:30 a.m. Packet Pick Up Closes
8:45 a.m. Kids Dash
9:00 a.m. 5K Start
Course time limit:
5K – 1 hour 20 minutes
Pick up your packet on Wednesday, November 23 from 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at Dick’s Sporting Goods at Oxmoor Center.
The WHAS Crusade for Children honors fire departments each year that go above and beyond. The Walton Memorial Trophies are awarded to fire departments with the largest percentage increases in collections from year to year. Jim Walton was longtime WHAS-TV and radio personality and MC of the WHAS Crusade for Children for more than 2 decades.
The Crusade also honors a business or organization with the largest yearly percentage with the Phyllis Knight Award. Phyllis was a longtime WHAS-TV journalist, host of the WHAS Crusade for Children, and the Crusade’s first Executive Director.
Crusade MC and WHAS radio personality Terry Meiners hosted the breakfast on Tuesday, October 25 at St. Matthews Fire & Rescue Station 3. It aired live on WHAS11’s Great Day Live, hosted by Claudia Coffey, weekdays at 9:00am.
Here are the happy totals for this year’s winners:
Category – Between $1,000 and $9,999
White Mills Volunteer Fire Department
2021 total: $3,317.82
2022 total: $7,610.00
Increase 129.37% (Increase $4,292.18)
Category – Between $10,000 and $49,999
New Haven/Rolling Fork Fire Department
2021 total: $10,758.38
2022 total: $21,828.39
Increase 102.90% (Increase $11,070.01)
Category – Between $50,000 and $99,999
Lafayette Township Fire Protection District
2021 total: $88,186.51
2022 total: $109,283.34
Increase 23.92% (Increase $21,096.83)
Category – Between $100,000 and above
St. Matthews Fire & Rescue
2021 total: $92,041.58
2022 total: $103,519.52
Increase 12.47% (Increase $11,477.94)
Phyllis Knight Award – awarded to the best performing company or organization
Kentuckiana Corvette Club
2021 total: $5,606.36
2022 total: $10,4220.00
Increase 85.90% ($4,815.64)
Bardstown hospital opens more kid-friendly emergency department
The WHAS Crusade for Children gave the hospital a nearly $22,000 grant to make the project a reality.
Author: WHAS11 Staff
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Nelson County hospital is making its emergency department more kid-friendly.
Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown, Kentucky opened its renovated pediatric emergency waiting area and exam room Monday.
The WHAS Crusade for Children gave the hospital a nearly $22,000 grant to make the project a reality.
“The WHAS Crusade for Children have been great partners with Flaget since 2010 and they have invested over $230,000 for items to support our youngest patients, so it’s extremely important for us to get the latest and greatest technology,” Flaget Memorial Hospital President Jennifer Nolan said.
The new exam and waiting rooms were the vision of the Cox’s Creek Elementary Backpack Leaders.
Flaget Memorial treats about 2,100 kids in their emergency department each year.
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The News-Enterprise in Elizabethtown published this editorial on July 16, 2022.
Crusade’s legacy of caring continues
July 16, 2022
The WHAS Crusade for Children has developed a lasting trust with the community through its efficient distribution of money donated to serve agencies, schools and hospitals which serve children with special needs.
The 69th Crusade collected $5,133,684.69 and roughly one month later every penny was being dispensed for its intended purpose.
The Crusade is charity in its truest form. It uses none of the donated money for overhead, expenses or operating of the telethon. It expects the same from grant applicants, telling them clearly that Crusade dollars are for direct services only. No grants are awarded to cover general operating funds or administrative needs.
The full list of 216 grants, available for public scrutiny at whascrusade.org, is impressive. It ranges from university-directed programming to hospital care and includes an array of social service agencies, nonprofits and school-based initiatives.
Locally, the largest Hardin County grant was $85,000 for the Baptist Health Foundation Hardin. Area hospitals are frequent beneficiaries of the Crusade. The neonatal intensive care unit in Elizabethtown is one of the most obvious Crusade blessings in recent decades, but the history of area hospitals are filled with stories of Crusade kindness.
Crusade grants also support special initiatives aimed at inclusion such as the Rachel’s Fun for Everyone Project. The playground at Optimist Park in Vine Grove received continued support from the Crusade. The current expansion plan, which will add a splash pad, secured $15,000 from the Crusade to go toward shade structures.
“I am extremely grateful for the continued partnership with the Crusade and it’s amazing all the good work they are able to do for the children in our community,” organizer and recent high school graduate Rachel Ritchie said.
Other local contributions on this year’s grant list were Hardin County Schools special education department, $50,000; Hosparus Health, $40,000; Meade County Schools, $25,000; Sunrise Children’s Services, $12,000; CASA of the Heartland, $10,500; Down Syndrome Association of Central Kentucky, $7,000; Camp TESSA, $6,000; Boy Scouts of America, Lincoln Heritage Council, $5,825; and LaRue County Public Schools, $3,000.
Thanks to the generosity from residents across the region, devotion of local fire departments and several significant major fundraising efforts including the LG&E and KU Foundation and Archdiocese of Louisville.
The WHAS Crusade for Children has raised more than $205 million for children with special needs since 1954. Next year’s telethon is June 3 and 4 but you can donate any time to the Crusade through its the secure website at https://secure.qgiv.com/for/wcfc or by calling 502-582-7706.
The Crusade truly is a unique program and a blessing to all it touches throughout the region it calls Kentuckiana.
This editorial represents a consensus of The News-Enterprise editorial board.
NewsRadio 840 WHAS is celebrating 100 years of service on July 18, 2022. The station will spend its “birthday” with a full celebration during Kentuckiana’s Morning News, the Tony & Dwight Show and Terry Meiners Show on July 18th.
840 WHAS is Kentucky’s oldest radio station and its history has been well preserved. The LKYRadio.com website is a virtual museum of WHAS history including newspaper articles, jingles and airchecks of great content and historic moments heard on 840 over the past several decades.
For more WHAS history, Berea College has this historical collection. A deeper read on the station’s early history can be found here: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1297&context=etd
NewsRadio 840 WHAS afternoon host Terry Meiners has spent the past year speaking with people from the station’s past in his “WHAS100” series. Hear dozens of interviews on Terry’s podcast feed including a chat with the late morning host Wayne Perkey.
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