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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE: Updates, resources, and context

Thank You For Helping Us Reach Our Goal!

WE DID IT... AND WE CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH! WE RAISED OVER $160,000 from over 1000 PLEDGES IN 7 DAYS!

With your gifts, you ensure that public radio continues in the Cape Fear region. Your gifts will keep the lights on in the studio and pay for the programs you know and love. Pledge drives enable us to continue to provide the music, news and emergency broadcasting you depend on on HQR News and Classical HQR. 

THANK YOU to everyone who helped support our Fall Pledge Drive:

WHQR Board of Directors 

Our wonderful volunteers, like Merritt and Mindy Blalock and the more than 100 great people who helped answer our pledge phones as part of business and non-profit teams and as individuals. 

The restaurants who provided food for our staff and volunteers:

Chili’s, Front Street Brewery, Jimmy John’s, Lunchbox, On a Roll, Trolly Stop, Savorez, Slice of Life, Szechuan 132, Which Wich, and Winnie’s Tavern. 

We also thank the many businesses and people who put up challenges: 

Boom Chamber Guitars & String, Inc., Carolina Gymnastics, Tim Costello and Kim Nelson, Danica Fletcher and CB Johnson with the Property Shop, Allen and Lori Feezor, Jim and Mary Hagen, Hansberry CPA and Consulting, Jeff Hovis with Intracoastal Realty, Pat Marriott, Vickie Matthews and Randy White, Momentum Companies, Kristine Moore, Michael Murchison and Barbara Sullivan, Caroline and Charles Neal, WHQR Board of Directors, WHQR Community Advisory Board, and Richard Yang. 

WHQR’S Committed Staff:

Pat Marriott, George Scheibner, Jeff Hunter, Hannah Breisinger, Katelyn Freund, Lan Nichols, Marissa Castrigno, Rhonda Bellamy, Rachel Keith, Jemila Ericson, Vince Winkle, Ken Campbell, Kate Brandis, Rachel Lewis Hilburn, Doc Jarden, Barbara Bush, Amanda Ake, Courtney Justus, and Mary Bradley. 

FINALLY, THE WONDERFUL LISTENERS WHO PLEDGED BY MAIL, ONLINE AND BY CALLING TO HELP US RAISE OUR GOAL AND MORE. THANK YOU!!!!!  

**The winners of the sweepstakes will be notified by phone or email. Please allow 4 to 8 weeks for processing for your thank you gifts.**

Mary Bradley moved to Wilmington from Los Angeles, CA in May 2007 with her husband Frank and twin baby daughters, Maggie and Kate. In California, Mary had been Drive Director and the producer of Elvis Mitchell's nationally syndicated public radio interview program "The Treatment" for public radio station KCRW for ten years. Mary was raised in Rhode Island and graduated from Boston University. Mary recently served as President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Cape Fear Chapter.