PUNXSUTAWNEY â The Punxsutawney Regional Make-a-Wish office recently finished up the 11-day Light Up a Childâs Life campaign with a total $160,000 raised across the Tri-County area.
Regional Manager Lacy Bair said the campaign is a radio campaign based in St. Marys, DuBois and Punxsutawney each year to raise funds around the holiday season to help grant wishes.
This 11-day campaign began in St. Marys on Dec. 8 to 11, then moved to DuBois from Dec. 11-14, and ended in Punxsutawney Dec. 14-18. The campaign is hosted on River 98.9 in St. Marys, Sunny 106 in DuBois, and 104.1 WPXZ in Punxsutawney.
Typically some of the wish children and their families come to the radio stations for the campaign to share their story and what their wishes are. This year, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, none of the children were allowed at the event. Instead, Make-a-Wish did phone calls with them or read email from them over the radio.