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ticipate in games of TwistPlinko, a bean bag toss anraffle for prizes donated bycal Pullman and Moscow nesses. Student musicians

Skavdah, Cassie Correlle, Brodie Peterson & Zach Wman entertained the crowddrawing further attention tevent. “No one could deal with c

bral palsy better,” expressCasey Stahlhut, Reister mom.“Even though Alex f

more obstacles than other

years old he keeps at it. Hecrawling and talking well has strong spirit. He has a to want to walk and be likevery other child. I believewill be walking in the nexyears and will be going toschool next year with othekids his age.” See Telethon on Page 3

By: Taylor Brooks

Thanks to the success of Cable

8 annual telethon, Alex Reister -- a two year old boy withcerebral palsy – is now able toget the wheel chair and physi-cal therapy equipment neces-sary for him to attend pre-school in the fall. The events and donations inthe CUB on the day of thetelethon raised $400 dollarsmaking the grand total over $4,000 with money donationsstill coming in. The telethonwas hosted live from the CUBand Studio A located in theMurrow building. While the CUB was fun andgames Studio A added a morepersonal touch to the telethon.There Reister’s family was

interviewed along with physi-

cal therapists were inter-viewed. Hosting the telethon were

Peter Wagner and KelseyHodgin in Murrow StudioA, and Evan Burns and Ve-ronica Marcelo in the CUB. The broadcast was a mix-ture of interviews withReister’s family and thera-

pist Chelsea Flesher, cou-pled with live events fromthe CUB lair. In the CUBstudents help raise moneyby participating in variousgames and listening to liveperformances from WSUstudents. Gift cards to local busi-nesses were given away asprizes and everyone had achance to win the grandraffle prize of $100 in cash.WSU students came to par-

By: Kaitlin O’Connor

Washington State Students,Pullman businesses and thecommunity came together to help support Cable 8’ stelethon and fundraiser.

The fundraiser raisedmoney for Alex Reister,of Pullman, a two-year-old boy with cerebral

palsy.

The events included a fundring drive at Safeway, a raffland game event in the CompUnion Building and a teleth See Businesses on Page 2

Annual Telethon Raises Over $4,000

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T H I S I S S U E :

Telethon

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Thanks to

Businesses

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Safeway Event 2

A Special Thanks to Pullman Businesses

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The Annual

Telethon

raised over

$4,00 dollars

Safeway

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bers together

Local busi-

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Alex Reister working

with physical therapists

at Early Learning Ser-

vices.

Raising Money with Hotdogs

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Dissmores IGA, Safe-way, Panda Express,Café Moro, Basilios,Fireside Grille, SouthFork Public House,The Village Center Cinemas, Gamma PhiBeta Sorority, DeltaGamma Sorority, Pull-man Building Supplyand Residents Hall

Dining Facilities allgave to the fundraiser through prizes for games and a raffle,monetary donations,and supplies.

The telethon raisedover 4,000 dollars, andexciting figure with

more than monetaryvalue. Danielle Gilbertson,Cable 8`s Vice-President of Marketingand Alumni Affairs ledthe fundraising efforts.She was proud of theefforts of her team andthrilled with the back-

ing from the businessesand community. “It was a rewarding

experience to see thecampus, businesses andthe community, allcome together for onecause.” Gilbertson

said. “All of the busi-

nesses made very valu-able contributions, we

are so thankful for theoutpouring of support.” The fundraiser has beena success, bringing Ca-ble 8, Washington Stateand the Pullman com-munity together for aworthy cause. It could-n’t have happened with-out the generosity of the

Pullman Community.

selling hot dogs, chipsand soda for two dol-lars. Throughout the day,Cable 8 staff, WSUstudents, friends andfamily of Alex and

other community mem-bers stopped by for acheap lunch, a lot of them paying well over two dollars for their hot dog lunch each to

By: Ashley Guest

In preparation for theannual telethon, Cable8 put on a hot dogevent outside of Safe-way.

The event was a hugesuccess and showedhow supportive thecommunity membersare. Cable 8 staff stoodoutside of Safewayfrom 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

help support a goodcause. “Everyone was reallygenerous with their do-nations and showedtheir support for Alexand his family,” said

Vice President of Mar-keting and Alumni Af-fairs DanielleGilbertson See Safeway on Page3

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Talking more about her son, Stahlhut shares, “He has such a sunny

spirit. He is just an amaz-ing boy with such a bigheart; everyone that meetshim enjoys him so much.You can be having such ahorrible day and he bright-ens your day and makes

you happy. Even throughall of his struggles he hasnever once complained.” While in the studio the au-dience got to experienceReister interact with hisfamily and see his wonder-ful smile and joyful spirit. Stahlhut notes that one of

Reister’s fascinations iswith toy balls.“We are just so thankful

for Cable 8 and for thesupport of the Pullman andMoscow community,”

Stahlhut said. “Danielle

Gilbertson, Vice President

of Marketing and AlumniAffairs, has such a bigheart and we are so thank-ful for all of her effort andorganization.”

The donations from thecommunity and WSU stu-dents are so vital in Reister growth and development.With the purchase of awheelchair and physicaltherapy tools, Reister nowhas a solid chance of suc-

cess at pre-school nextyear and in his continua-tion to lead a normal life. “Overall the event was a

success,” said Gilbertson,

vice president of market-ing and alumnae affairs. “I

was excited to see all of the Cable 8 staff, studentvolunteers and the Murrowcollege come together tomake the event such a suc-cess. We started workingin preparation for the tele-thon in September 2010,and it feels good to see itall play out and to makesuch a difference in Alex’s

life.” If you are touched byReister story, donationscan still be made out toCable 8 and will be greatlyappreciated by the family.

proved her to be successfulin this task. Another key player in theevent was Show Promo-tions Manager Spencer Kabelac. He was in chargeof making sure the hotdogs were worth every

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General Promotions Man-ager Laura Minch ex-plained that part of her jobwas to bring people in andget their attention. Her enthusiasm and commit-ment to helping Alex

penny that communitymembers donated.“I really enjoyed cookingthe hot dogs and workingwith the rest of the Cable 8 staff for such a greatcause,” Kabelac said.

See Safeway on Page 4

Safeway: Helps Community Raise Money

“He has such a

sunny spirit. He is

just an amazing

boy with such a

big heart;

everyone that

meets him enjoys

him so much”



“Safeway was really helpfuland made this entire eventsuccessful by donating all of the supplies and by promot-ing the event with flyers andannouncements to all of theshoppers throughout theday,” Gilbertson said. Everyone at Cable 8 hopes

to have the opportunity toput on such a great eventnext year and is very thank-ful for the support of thecommunity. Gilbertson,Minch and Kabelac and therest of the Cable 8 staff arevery proud of how well theevent turned out and how

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Gilbertson, Minch and Kabelac allexpressed that the event was ex-tremely rewarding and they are allvery thankful to for the donationsfrom Safeway and the Community.

supportive the communitymembers were for such anamazing cause. The dona-tions from everyone hashelped Alex and his familytremendously, a big thank you to everyone who cameout and supported thisevent!

Lizzy Teitzel

Edward R. Murrow College of

Communication

Washington State University

Pullman, WA 99164-2520

Phone: (509) 335-5219

Fax: (509) 335-1555

E-mail: [email protected]

http://cable8.org

http://www.cable8productions.blogspot.com/

ALUMNI: WE WOULD LOVE TO

HEAR FROM YOU! Send entries

of your experience working with

Cable 8 to Lizzy Teitzel

Cable 8 productions is a student-runtelevision station where team members

write, produce, and direct original pro-gramming. It was founded in 1986 to

equip Washington State Universitybroadcasting students with practical

television experience on a local cable

station serving the Pullman and Mos-cow communities.

Cable 8 Productions

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