A challenge was made on the airwaves of KSRM to help with the St. Jude fundraiser. KSRM’s Larry Opperman told listeners of “The Morning Update” on April 8th that a day earlier, $30,000 was raised and challenged listeners to exceed that amount. He bet the listeners that if $35,000 could be exceeded, he pledged to wear his kilt and sing the Green Acres theme song at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting for his allotted three-minute public testimony.
Opperman cited how important the fundraiser was to him as a good friend’s son of his is alive today thanks to St. Jude. His cancer was discovered when he was 11 and St. Jude made it possible for him to have a wonderful life and family now at the age of 52.
Opperman told the KPB Assembly:
“The Kenai Peninsula did great. Last year, 2021, the total was about $62,500 that we raised. This year, it was almost $70,000, but I sat there, and I said what can I think of to do this. So, I told people, ‘I tell you what, if we can beat last year, I will wear a kilt and I will go to the borough assembly meeting and I will sing the green acres theme song from the TV show. Now I coordinated that through the president because I didn’t want to just come in here and do that and disrespect the assembly meeting.”
Clip of Opperman singing the Green Acres theme:
