Special online deal til June 30!

To celebrate the 66th annual WHAS Crusade for Children, Papa John’s has announced a special promotion. It’s a fundraiser to support children with special needs through The WHAS Crusade for Children — the 7th straight year Papa John’s has offered this promotion.

20% of your total order is donated to the Crusade!

Papa John’s locations from Carrollton to Elizabethtown will be working to satisfy customer appetites and support the WHAS Crusade for Children.

This special Crusade deal at Papa John’s runs from May 5 through June 30.

Customers must order through www.papajohns.com or use the Papa John’s mobile app.

Just CLICK HERE to link up with papajohns.com. Be sure to enter the promo code CRUSADE.

Papa John’s locations participating in the promotion

1616 EAST 10TH STREET – JEFFERSONVILLE IN
301 E. LEWIS & CLARK PARKWAY – CLARKSVILLE IN
2767 CHARLESTOWN ROAD – NEW ALBANY IN
1961 BROWNSBORO ROAD – LOUISVILLE KY
4673 OUTER LOOP – LOUISVILLE KY
2336 SOUTH FLOYD STREET – LOUISVILLE KY
14041 SHELBYVILLE ROAD – LOUISVILLE KY
6902 SOUTHSIDE DRIVE – LOUISVILLE KY
2363 HIGHWAY 135 NW – CORYDON IN
5363 DIXIE HIGHWAY – LOUISVILLE KY
3948 TAYLORSVILLE ROAD – LOUISVILLE KY
5911 TIMBER RIDGE DRIVE – PROSPECT KY
3983 7TH STREET ROAD – LOUISVILLE KY
5010 PRESTON HIGHWAY – LOUISVILLE KY
4123 SHELBYVILLE ROAD – LOUISVILLE KY
3511 SPRINGHURST COMMONS DRIVE – LOUISVILLE KY
10100 TAYLORSVILLE ROAD – LOUISVILLE KY
10627 DIXIE HIGHWAY – LOUISVILLE KY
1732 MIDLAND TRAIL – SHELBYVILLE KY
221 SOUTH HURSTBOURNE PKWY – LOUISVILLE KY
189 ADAM SHEPHERD PARKWAY SUITE #23 SHEPHERD’S CROSSING – SHEPHERDSVILLE KY
713 HIGHLANDER POINT DRIVE – FLOYDS KNOBS IN
411 SOUTH 2ND STREET – LOUISVILLE KY
2111 WEST BROADWAY – LOUISVILLE KY
5000 MUD LANE – LOUISVILLE KY
567 TAYLORSVILLE ROAD – TAYLORSVILLE KY
2301 BARDSTOWN ROAD – LOUISVILLE KY
5709 BARDSTOWN ROAD – LOUISVILLE KY
2606 HARRY NICHOLS DRIVE – MADISON IN
600 EAST TIPTON STREET – SEYMOUR IN
6535 W. HWY 22 – CRESTWOOD KY
1960 N. DIXIE BLVD. – RADCLIFF KY
1415 HIGHLAND DRIVE – CARROLLTON KY
1848 SOUTH HIGHWAY 53 – LAGRANGE KY
3100 RING ROAD – ELIZABETHTOWN KY
905 MARKET STREET – CHARLESTOWN IN
996 CHAMBERS BOULEVARD – BARDSTOWN KY
316 N. COLUMBIA AVENUE – CAMPBELLSVILLE KY
400 N. MAIN STREET – SALEM IN
701 SOUTH MAIN STREET – LEITCHFIELD KY
745 WEST MCCLAIN AVENUE – SCOTTSBURG IN
611 N BARDSTOWN RD – MT. WASHINGTON KY
213 WEST WALNUT STREET – NORTH VERNON IN
4979 N. DIXIE HWY. – ELIZABETHTOWN KY
510 BYPASS RD. – BRANDENBURG KY
30 SHAWNEE DRIVE – HODGENVILLE KY
255 NORTH DEPOT ST. – LEBANON KY
114 HOMETOWN PLAZA – SELLERSBURG IN

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – The WHAS-TV family is mourning the death of the man who put our daylong Kentucky Derby coverage in the 1980s and 1990s on the map.

Former director Jerry Drury died Monday in Louisville at Norton Hospital.

Drury was the director and producer of our Kentucky Derby coverage, which at one point made for a 14-hour broadcast day. He started working at WHAS11 in 1970.

He won dozens of awards and worked with the greats like Cawood Ledford of WHAS and Jim McKay of ABC. McKay would also be in our TV compound during Derby week.

Drury was the captain of the ship on Derby day. He wrote the scripts then directed the look down to the second. His first derby was 1980 and his last one, 2000, when ABC sports broadcast its final Derby.

We all knew him as “‘Ol Dru” because he called himself that. The Harrodsburg native died at the age of 72.

In our minds, he left us an amazing legacy, in director’s terms, he’ll never “fade to black.”

Here’s Jerry’s obituary as it appeared in the Courier-Journal on May 1, 2019.

Jerry Dale Drury

Louisville – The man behind the broadcasting and production of the biggest day in the State of Kentucky, “The Kentucky Derby”, Mr. Jerry Dale Drury, 72 of Louisville passed away April 29, 2019 at Norton Brownsboro Hospital. He was born May 6, 1946 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky to the late Marshall and Gladys Sanders Drury. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Buddy Coleman.

Jerry obtained his Masters degree in Counseling with an undergrad in Communications in 1968 from Western Kentucky University and was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was a brilliant, intelligent man. Jerry considered the Kentucky Derby his Holiday. He worked as a television producer for 25 years with WHAS 11 and ESPN, making sure that the Derby went off without a hitch. He was involved every year with the WHAS Crusade for Children which was near and dear to his heart. He was also an avid University of Kentucky fan. He was known to many as “Ole Dru.”

Those left to cherish his memory are his son, Spencer Drury and his wife Stacey; two granddaughters, Emma and Mayzie; a cousin, Diane Thacker; and numerous friends and colleagues.

Visitation for Jerry will be held from 2-8 p.m., Friday, May3, 2019 at Ratterman Funeral Home, 12900 Shelbyville Road, East Louisville. A private burial will be held at a later date.

Memorial contributions in memory of Jerry may be made to the WHAS Crusade for Children, 520 West Chestnut Street, Louisville, KY 40202.

Published in The Courier-Journal on May 1, 2019

Two Louisville institutions – Hadley Pottery and the WHAS Crusade for Children – are teaming up to make life better for children with special needs.

With Thunder, Oaks and Derby coming up you may be looking for unique dinnerware for your party plans. Now you can liven up your table and drink settings and help children with special needs.

Known nationally for its iconic, handmade pieces, Louisville’s Hadley Pottery is doing a special month-long event for the WHAS Crusade for Children.

20% discount every Saturday
and 20% to the Crusade during April

“We’re going to have a 20% off discount every Saturday in April, whatever our sales are 20% of them are going to the Crusade. We’re going to have a weekly drawing every Saturday for people to put in a chance to win a prize of a vase and at the end of the month of April we’re going to give away our large big planter,” says Jerry Day of Hadley Pottery.

Hadley Pottery
Open from 9:00am to 3:00pm on Saturdays (Crusade sale day!)
Open Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm

Easily accessible from interstates I-64, I-65 and I-71

Rachel Platt hosted the WHAS Crusade for Children for three years from 2016 to 2018.  Now she’s stepping aside and passing the torch to WHAS11’s Lisa Hutson who will be co-hosting with Terry Meiners this year. A few months ago, Rachel left WHAS11 News and accepted a position as Director of Community Engagement at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville.

Rachel and Lisa stopped by WHAS11’s Great Day Live on Wednesday, March 27th to make the big announcement. They were joined by Crusade CEO Dawn Lee, to talk about what’s coming up this year on the 66th annual WHAS Crusade for Children.

The WHAS Crusade for Children is always the first weekend in June, and this year it’s June 1 and June 2, 2019.

Melissa Swan co-hosted with Terry Meiners from 2001 to 2015.

More about Lisa Hutson from WHAS11.com

Lisa Hutson is a news reporter/anchor at WHAS11 in Louisville, KY, specializing in general assignment reporting.

I am so excited to return to my Kentucky roots and call Louisville my new home.

I was born just a few hours south in Murray, Kentucky where my family still resides. While I moved to Arkansas in my early years, I spent many summers coming back to my grandfather’s farm in a little community we like to call Hico, Kentucky. I come from a long line of hard-working Kentucky farmers and I’m still a country girl at heart.

From the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be a journalist. I lead my high school journalism program while working part-time at the local radio/community television station doing everything from filming sporting events to taking out the trash and I loved it.

My college years took me to Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas where I studied Marriage and Family Therapy.

I returned to my passion for storytelling in 2010 at KTHV in Little Rock, Arkansas. For 3 years, I covered wildfires, tornadoes and the everyday struggles of everyday people. While in Little Rock, I shined a light on the issues local veterans face returning from multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan in my series “Life After War.”

My reporting career took me to WXIX in Cincinnati in 2013. I am most proud of a documentary series called “Finding Home” where I followed a local family’s journey out of homelessness which garnered thousands of dollars in donations to local homeless shelters.

For the last two years, I’ve been waking up early in Waco, Texas as a morning news anchor at KCEN telling stories through my series “Heart of Central Texas.”

My husband Wayne and I are so eager to try all the great food that Louisville has to offer and attend those exciting UK-Louisville basketball games. I am so thrilled to serve the city of Louisville and I’m excited to get to work telling the stories that matter to the people of this amazing city.