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And the 2017 Radio GiveAway Winner is...

Portrait: Richard Hellinga
Amanda Pinckney
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Sustaining Radio Donor Richard Hellinga

WKAR sustaining radio donor Richard Hellinga is the happy winner of the Grand Hotel GiveAway!

Hellinga is longtime WKAR donor and is excited to take his wife on the two-night stay at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. The radio GiveAway was part of a recent fundraising campaign that raised over $98,000 in support of quality radio for mid-Michigan. 

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