Between Thursday afternoon and Saturday night, the Langley Speedway marketing director, Chuck Hall, hosted a 50-hour radio show on WBYM/1490AM to collect items for firefighters and families displaced by wildfires in Florida. When Hall signed off at 8:30 Saturday night, his donation jar held $19,000 in cash and checks. Nearby, a five-ton truck from Cook’s Moving and Storage was bulging with liquids, household and personal-care items, clothes, non-perishable food, blankets, pillows, furniture, baby items and animal food. In addition, the drive produced 16 other tractor-trailers bound for the Red Cross in northeast Florida. All told, the value of Langley’s donations and goods was estimated at $100,000. See the rest of the story at Langley Speedway, thanks to the many readers for the heads up on this.(7-8-98)
