Going over pledge drive strategy are, from left, radio hosts Vince Gallagher and Marianne MacDonald, and St. Patrick's Day parade director Michael Bradley.
“It’s Pentecost Sunday,” Michael Bradley told the listeners to Vince Gallagher’s Irish Radio Hour on Sunday, May 31, as he kicked off the five-week fundraiser for the WTMR 800AM Irish radio shows. “”I hope the Holy Spirit moves you.”
Apparently it did, because the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade director and a group of volunteers including dance teachers Rosemarie Timoney and Olivia Hilpl (Rince Ri) pulled in more than $5,000 in two hours, including a $1,000 donation from the St. Patrick’s Day Observance Association, headed by local restaurateur Michael Callahan, who called in.
In the last three weeks, says Marianne MacDonald, host of the show, “Come West Along the Road,” more than $8,000 in donations have come in, including proceeds from a benefit by the Camden County Emerald Society Pipes and Drums and a brunch at the Auld Dubliner, a restaurant in Gloucester City, NJ.
Tune in on Sunday morning, from 11 AM to 1 PM, and call in your pledge. Or give it director to Gallagher and MacDonald at the Penn’s Landing Irish American Festival on Sunday, June 7, where they’ll be sponsoring the Traditional Tent.
Check out our photos and videos from last Sunday’s fundraisers.
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