This weekend marks the 45th annual Meeting Street Telethon with WPRI-12. Fun 107 has been thrilled to be a part of this important telethon. For years now, we ve kicked off the Telethon weekend with a Radiothon live from Sunrise Bakery and Coffee Shop in Dartmouth. When Manny Amaral and his sister Louise first heard about the Fun 107 Radiothon, they jumped right on it, inviting the morning show to broadcast from their Dartmouth Street location and agreeing to donate 50 percent of their sales while we were there.
We ve been going there each year since, and every year the Fun 107 audience has generously donated thousands to support the resources at the Schwartz School and Meeting Street.
Something very irksome happened to the customers of a local bakery recently. As I was thinking about how to present the story, I started thinking back to the character actor in the old TV commercials featuring Fred the Baker, the sleepy-eyed frontman for what was then known as Dunkin Donuts. The late Michael Vale became famous for the catchphrase, Time to make the donuts.
Well, this is a true story that happened the day before Thanksgiving at the Sunrise Bakery and Coffee Shop on Bolton Street.
Finding parking around that congested neighborhood is difficult to say the least. So customers who placed their holiday orders, parked wherever they could and then ran inside to wait in a socially-distanced line. When they got back to their vehicles, the cars were all ticketed.