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Christmas Cheerity Gives $1000 to Local Charities This Holiday Season

By Michelle Mitchell Dec 20, 2024 | 11:00 AM

This holiday season listeners had a chance to WIN some and GIVE some with Christmas Cheerity!  For two weeks in December, listeners of Woodward Community Media stations 104.5 WFMB, 99-7 The MIX, 96.7 BOB FM, and Sports Radio 92.3 FM/1450 AM registered to be a Christmas Cheerity winner, presented by the YMCA of Springfield.

Winners were chosen at random and received a $100 VISA gift card for themselves and then had the opportunity to gift a $100 Visa gift card to a local non-profit organization.  A few extra lucky Christmas Cheerity winners also received prizes from the Illinois State Fair including 2 tickets to see Def Leppard Saturday, August 15, 2025 at the Illinois State Fair Grandstand, a parking pass, and a pair of admission passes.

The winners of this year’s Christmas Cheerity (and the charities they chose) were:

Jackie D. – Animal Protective League
Janice D. – Solid Rock Transition Service for Foster Children
Harvey D. – Mini O’Beirne Crisis Nursery
Jennifer W. – Safe Passage of Taylorville
Ruth Z. – Animial Protective League
Lacey W. – Sojourn Center
Jane F. – Central Illinois Food Bank
Joey B. – Kiwanis
Christine H. – Land of Lincoln Honor Flight
Jean E. – Boys and Girls Club