NCPR Homecoming
Homecoming at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. Photo: Queens University, Creative Commons, some rights reserved
If you live in a college town like I do, all this fall color, the snap in the air, as well as the longer wait at stoplights and restaurants, mean it’s time for family weekend celebrations—or homecoming, as it is often called. All the folks who felt touched by their time in the North Country gravitate back “home” to be together once more and to meet all the new faces that have joined the community in the meantime.
You can always tell when you have come home. You hang up a load of care along with your hat. You get to be just who you are. All your favorite stuff is close at hand along with the folks you know you can count on to be there for you. It’s the place that has been shaped by your own choices, that has been maintained by your own sweat and treasure.
Coincidentally, this is also the time for coming home to NCPR, the beginning of our annual fall fundraiser.
If NCPR has become a part of your home, keeping you company on long drives, providing news and entertainment while you chop up the garden bounty for a family meal, cooling you out at the end of a long workday or waking you up to a new day with morning news, this is the time to do what you do with anything that is an important part of your home–you put some effort into upkeep–a little cash, perhaps.
Many of you have already done so in response to early renewal reminders–so many, in fact, that NCPR is nearly a third of the way to our goal as we begin. If you are one of those, thanks so much for your support.
You may recall that NCPR has a new “home maintenance” plan. Since last year at this time we are keeping down the volume, only asking for your support during regularly scheduled program breaks and by reaching out via channels other than the microphones in the control room. If we can reach our goal by those means, we will never interrupt your programs to raise funds again.
But, one home truth for you all, we do need to reach our goal, and will, with your help. How quickly we can do that is in your hands.
Thanks everybody, and welcome home.
Tags: fa15fundraiser, listeningpost
