Tune into WLRA (88.1 FM) for its annual fundraising broadcast for the Family Assistance Fund at Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn. The “To Kill a DJ” programming will run from Nov. 7-15. The program involves a 6-hour non-stop broadcast, with select students going even longer. Lewis freshman Joey Preston will be trying to break a Lewis University broadcasting record by being on the air for 50 continuous hours.

Listeners can tune into WLRA five ways—tuning radio to 88.1 FM, listen to the live streaming on www.lewisu.edu and www.shoutcast.com, visit the iTunes store, or download the free iTunes application for mobile devices.

Lewis University has raised more than $30,000 for Hope Children’s Hospital. The donations are used to assist families of hospitalized children in their greatest time of need. In the past, the funds were used to pay for transportation for children receiving outpatient services, medicine, clothing, hotel rooms for families, bus passes, and airline flights. In 2009, a combined effort of Lewis University College of Nursing and Health Professions, Student Nurses’ Association, Student Governing Board, and WLRA raised a record $12,020 for the Hope Children’s Hospital Family Assistance Fund program.

For more information or to give further support, please call WLRA radio at (815) 836-5214 or via e-mail at wlraradio@lewisu.edu.

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