'Tis the season! I had an absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with my family and some friends. I hope you were able to have a great Thanksgiving weekend too.

I'm happy to report that right before Thanksgiving, we launched our 2nd annual 12 Strays Of Christmas Pet Food & Supply Drive on 102.3 WSUS The Christmas Station, The Tri-State's Rock Station 103.7 NNJ, and The Tri-State's #1 For New Country 106.3 The Bear! We have had such an amazing time with Stuff The Bus all of these years helping so many in Sussex County, I wanted to see if we could get any luck with something similar. While we gladly take any pet food and supplies during our Stuff The Bus food drive, it isn't the base of our radiothon promotion. For years we've heard of folks struggling so much, that they pick feeding their pets instead of feeding themselves, or keeping their heat low just so they can afford to feed their pets. This couldn't happen without your immediate help and support. I'm so grateful for our sponsor drop off locations Scotty's Automotive on 206 in Montague, and Sussex Rural Electric. Thank you for continuing to support these local friends who are all diehard animal lovers. I'm talking their entire teams! They're psyched each year I show up with a big box for donations. Where will these donations go after we collect them at these locations? Just like last year we are doing it three fold. Everything we collect stays local, going to Father John's Animal House, One Step Closer Animal Rescue OSCAR, and The Sussex County Division Of Social Services food pantry. We want to help both local pets and their families too. I'm very proud of this whole promotion. One more huge, fun great thing about this?

We do a grand finale party at Father John's Animal House, where we showcase 12 Pets during a Facebook Live video simulcast on all 3 of our radio station Facebook pages Saturday December 14th! Many friends thought I was crazy coming up with this idea and trying to showcase our 12 Strays Of Christmas all in LIVE video at the same exact time. I get it. Just handling one pet at a time during my Adopt A Pet Of The Week Thursdays at 3:45pm can be a tall enough task. I'm happy to report it went amazing! You want to talk about what I think is a win win? We get to help local people, pets, then celebrate with 12 adoptable pets all at the same time! Last year we got 10 of 12 adopted within 4 days after our video. I'm hopeful next year we can get even more drop off locations and make this even bigger!!! Thank you so much for your support. You can see more about this by clicking here.

Wednesday night I did my usual Thanksgiving Eve celebration with some amazing, close friends. Besties Brad, Lesley, Shawn, Gayle, Roy and Denise all showed up to hang with me. I'm very grateful for them, even if I was on fumes after our amazing Stuff The Bus weekend that had us working wall to wall all weekend.

Thursday morning I was on the road by 7:15am, and at my parents house in Mansfield, Massachusetts by 11:15am. 4 hours on Thanksgiving morning again, despite the hard, cold, nonstop rain. I'll take that all day!

I had a wonderful time with my family. We were at the Cousins / Kids Table, where we always have a great time. I had a great time getting to catch up with my family. They're so amazing, generous, and patient with me! They've all always been so supportive of me my whole life. I'm a truly lucky guy.

Steve Allan

Steve Allan