By: VHFA

February 17, 2011

WGDR 91.1 FM in Plainfield will air the 14th Annual Homelessness Marathon, Feb. 23-24.

The 14-hour broadcast, which originates from 100,000-watt KKFI in Kansas City, Mo., and is free to air for non-profit stations, features voices and stories of homeless people around the country with live call-ins via a national toll-free number.

The broadcast starts at 7 p.m. Eastern time next Wednesday, Feb. 23, and goes all night until 9 a.m. the next morning.

WGDR invites people to join them for the broadcast by gathering at the station on the Goddard College campus.

The station will also preempt its usual programming from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Feb. 23 for related homelessness coverage, according to advocate Morgan W. Brown, who hopes to live blog and tweet from the event.

For more information, contact WGDR's Ruth Wilder: 802.322,1720, [email protected].