Howie Carr: We’re Raising Money to Help out Health Care Workers Who Are ‘Hurting’

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CARR: “At the same time, a lot of our advertisers are restaurants and they are also suffering. You know, they are doing takeout, curbside delivery, that kind of thing, but that’s a fraction of what they usually do. So they need the business, too. But the — nobody really knows what restaurants are open and what aren’t open in this situation. So, our initial thought was to raise money and just give it to our advertisers that are restaurants and let them deliver to the hospitals. But the hospitals, we spoke with them and they said for security and safety reasons, they couldn’t just let restaurants make, you know, random deliveries to emergency rooms at night. So, what we decided to do is just try to raise money from our listeners. We are a regional network of about over 25 stations in the New England area. Raise money among our listeners and anyone who wanted to donate and then just make, as the money came in, just give donations to the hospital and ask them to just use the money that we were providing them, our listeners, and our corporate sponsors including Matthew’s Brothers, a window company in Maine, and just provide meals, hot meals from our restaurants to the emergency medical personnel. And it’s working out pretty well, Ainsley. We have got a lot of response so far.”