We had an extremely busy on the May 15th, 16th and 17th weekend that packed in four remotes in less than three days. We spent our Friday night at Benning St. Bar and Grill on Friday night. Then the next day, we had two remotes in two different states. We kicked off Saturday morning at the Richmond Middle School for the Singing For Life blood drive that benefited the American Red Cross. It was a gorgeous Saturday morning and there was a softball game raging in the field connected to the school. We had a young listener, Chris, hang out with us during the game because he loves radio and hated watching his sister pitch...and something hilarious happened.

Chris, age 10, asked General Manager Schuyler 'Sketch' Evans how he could get a job at 99Rock when he was older. Sketch told him that he needed to study hard so he could get into Dartmouth. At that, Chris told Sketch that his grades were 'crudish' and that he was not good at spelling. Chris asked Sketch if Sketch was good at spelling; Sketch replied weakly in the affirmative. Shortly thereafter, Chris heard an advertisement on 99Rock for Comcast and asked Sketch if he knew how to spell Comcast. "Sure, C-O-M-C-A-S-T-E." He completely blew it! An instant Dartmouth Broadcasting classic....

After the Singing for Life remote the Street Team spent the afternoon recuperating from giving blood and then headed into north country to the Bear Ridge Speedway for the opening night of the 2009 racing season. The street team consisted of over 9 people and had a great time watching the cars go in tight circles around the clay track. It unfortunately began raining and the night was cut short.

The following morning we were back into action for a live remote in front of the Hanover Inn, it was the Great Upper Valley Race benefiting Headrest. Headrest is a local substance abuse assistance center based out of Lebanon. Dartmouth Broadcasting made it into the D the next morning and looked pretty good. On top of getting a little free notoriety around campus, the D was nice enough to include a quote from a listener testifying to the fact that radio works - "Heard about it on the radio, and it sounded like a good idea and a lot of fun," Robert Diehm, a participant from Norwich, Vt., said. To read the full article, follow this link.

Schuyler 'Sketch' Evans '10 outside with Larry from the North Country Cordsmen and our young friend Chris before a live talk up over the air.

Here I am reading off a flier during a talk up.

There was a little lack of donors so Sketch stepped up to the plate. Sketch kept on doing the remote and talked while they were drawing blood... he got a little riled up due to everything combined. Who doesn't love the adrenaline of local live radio?



The Street Team at Bear Ridge. From Left: Chris Garrett, Heath Cole, David 'Hoagie' Kastner, Phil 'CheeseSteak' and Sketch (in black)