Jeff Thelen

To date, WSAW has raised $1,489,576. This year’s Share Your Holidays campaign collected $166,834 and thousands of pounds of non-perishable food.

“Even 20 years into this effort, the outpouring of support is always overwhelming,” says Jeff Thelen, WSAW anchor and campaign coordinator.

Local TV stations continue to hold fund raisers to help food banks in their communities provide food for the hungry, many of whom are seeking help for the first time due to Covid.

Gray’s CBS and Fox affiliates in Wausau, Wis., collected donations totaling more than $100,000 as part of their annual Share Your Holidays campaign. This is the 17th year for Share Your Holidays and brings the total for all the years combined to more than $818,000.