6 people honored by Missoula Downtown Association
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MISSOULA â The Missoula Downtown Association (MDA) Board of Directors has given six awards to people who have done extraordinary things for downtown Missoula in 2020.
The annual tradition of honoring people who do special things for Downtown Missoula began in 1986 and has continued on for 44 years. This yearâs awards were presented in person and celebrated during the MDAâs monthly board meeting.
The most prestigious award â the Dan Cederberg Downtowner of the Year â was presented to Eric Legvold, Director of Impact for United Way of Missoula County, for his service to our community during the COVID crisis.
WRAL TechWire keeps tabs on the latest and greatest meetups, panels, workshops, conferences, application deadlines and all things happening in the North Carolina startup/tech world. “The Headliners” is a multi-part weekly roundup of upcoming events to add to your calendar.
Following is a list of February events in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and the greater Triangle area. To find out what’s happening this month in cities outside of the Triangle, check out part two of the “Headliners” column. Another post highlights events coming up in March. Meetups that occur regularly are listed here.
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Sonny Fox, Beloved Wonderama Host, Dies at 95
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Sonny Fox, the beloved kids television host who connected with children on the New York-based Sunday morning program “Wonderama,” died Sunday in Los Angeles of coronavirus-related pneumonia, his website confirmed. He was 95.
Fox hosted “Wonderama” for four hours every Sunday, and the show was celebrated for the way it engaged children, featuring everything from cartoons to games that kids could play along with at home. In 1959, Fox was hired to replace Bill Britten and Doris Faye as the host of “Wonderama” on the Metromedia station WNEW-TV, Channel 5 in New York.
Sonny Fox, Beloved Wonderama Host, Dies at 95
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Sonny Fox, the beloved kids television host who connected with children on the New York-based Sunday morning program “Wonderama,” died Sunday in Los Angeles of coronavirus-related pneumonia, his website confirmed. He was 95.
Fox hosted “Wonderama” for four hours every Sunday, and the show was celebrated for the way it engaged children, featuring everything from cartoons to games that kids could play along with at home. In 1959, Fox was hired to replace Bill Britten and Doris Faye as the host of “Wonderama” on the Metromedia station WNEW-TV, Channel 5 in New York.
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A POW during World War II, he also emceed the game show The $64,000 Challenge and produced Tom Snyder s Tomorrow.
Sonny Fox, the beloved pioneer of kids television who demonstrated an amazing one-on-one rapport with children as the host of the New York-based Sunday morning program
Wonderama, has died. He was 95.
Fox died Sunday of pneumonia induced by COVID-19 in a hospital in Encino, his daughter, Meredith Fox, told
The Hollywood Reporter.
A native of Brooklyn who was a prisoner of war during World War II, Fox also served as a wartime correspondent for the Voice of America; emceed game shows like