Since I was apparently very "breezy" and my segment was too long, Jay edited down my recording. It was like magic!! He played it back, and you couldn't even tell there were entire sentences left out!!
Jazzy the Wolf, mascot for the new oldies station!
"Hi, this is Sheila Smith, sending you warm holiday blessings
from the Emergency Department at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa!
My most memorable Christmas ever was in 1986. My parents were farmers, raising five kids in
the Missouri hills, and earlier that year the crops didn’t bring in a very good
harvest. My mom and dad had always
taught is that “a bunch of stuff around the tree” was not the real reason for
the season, but they felt bad that they wouldn’t be able to give us gifts like
they wanted to. We still had a tree that
year, but it was the saddest little Charlie Brown tree you could imagine – it was
so droopy it could barely hold an ornament!
Well, someone in our community knew we were having a hard time, and they
submitted our names to the “Adopt-A-Family” organization. You wouldn’t believe how big our eyes got,
when perfect strangers showed up on our door step on Christmas Eve - arms full
of groceries, and stacks of presents taller than our dried up little tree!
So on behalf of every family whose life has been touched in
ways you’ll never know, thank you to Adopt-A-Family and other amazing
organizations just like it and to everyone who participates. Your generosity has continued to inspire
others - 27 years later I’m a mom with five kids of my own, and they get so
much joy from passing on the blessing of “giving” to other people, just like
someone did for my family so many years ago. Merry Christmas, and thank you for giving!"
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