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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 19, 2005

CONTACT: Rick Rowden, (573) 442-6272
Trish Blair, (573) 874-0268

KFRU to broadcast fund-raiser Wednesday for sister city iodized salt drive

	(COLUMBIA, MO) - Area radio listeners will be able to call in gifts and pledges Wednesday morning, April 20, to support Salt Solution 2005, the final Columbia Cares for Kutaisi iodized salt drive.
	Starting at 6 a.m., KFRU News/Talk 1400 AM will broadcast its two local morning shows live from the Parkade Center, 601 Business Loop 70 W. "Daybreak with David Lile" and "The Morning Meeting" with Fred Parry and Simon Rose also will feature guests who are familiar with Columbia's sister city in the country of Georgia, and with the health problems Kutaisi's children face because they lack access to dietary iodine.
	"During past iodized salt drives, the people of Columbia have generously called in their support during our KFRU broadcasts, and we hope they will help us once again as we move toward a long-term solution to this problem in our sister city," said Trish Blair, M.D., president of A Call To Serve-International, the nonprofit that is spearheading the salt campaign.
	With a goal of $100,000, the 2005 drive seeks a sustainable answer to the problem, opening a plant that will allow the Georgians to import iodized salt inexpensively in bulk and repackage it for individual distribution at a minimal cost.
	Following are interviews scheduled for Wednesday morning:
		·	6:20 a.m. -- Gary Taylor, local businessman who was inspired to conceive and lead the first Columbia Cares for Kutaisi drive in 2001, and Terry Stiles of Orthman Conveying Systems, which designed and will manufacture salt repacking machines to be used in Kutaisi
		·	7:20 a.m. - the Rev. Mel West, who visited Georgia and helped distribute iodized salt following a previous Columbia Cares for Kutaisi campaign
		·	7:40 a.m. - Columbia Mayor Darwin Hindman and Weyen Burnam, representative of the Parkade Center, the drive's lead sponsor
		·	8:20 to 8:56 a.m. -- Kee and Diana Groshong, local community leaders and ACTS members, and Blair
		·	9:40 a.m. - the Rev. John Baker, pastor of First Baptist Church of Columbia, who just returned from a trip to the country of Georgia
		·	10: 15 a.m. - Elizabeth "Betty" James, M.D., president of A Call To Serve-Missouri and professor of child health, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine
	For more information, call A Call To Serve at 874-0268 or visit www.acalltoserve.org.

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