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BRUCE BISHOP CHRONICLE|*gs Sekely, left, Colleen 0 Neill and Larry Wright talk about relationships in the WEOL studios. The trio make up the Les in the Morning show on WEOL.WEOL celebrates landmark yearsAlison Diet*The Chronicle-WegramELYRIA — Break out the streamers arul balloons —WF.OI. is celebrating two special dates, this weekend.Friday marks the station’s60th anniversary of broadcasting and Sunday is its 50th anniversary of airing the First United Methodist Church 11a.m. services on Sunday mornings.Of the two. the latter is a farrarer occurrence in the worldof radio.“You rarely hear anything on the radio for more than 10years, it seems. said t^raig Adams, WEOL’s operations manager and news director.It’s also an unusual occurrence in the world of church services.When I first came here. I said, '1 can't imagine a radio broadcast,’ ” said The Rev. Roger Talbott of First UnitedMethodist Church, who came to the Elyria church th ree years ago. But people have become real believers in it.One notable use of the radio broadcast was during a big snowstorm last winter.A lot of churches canceled services; it wasn't a good day for people to be out, Talbott said. But 1 was there, and we got an organist to come in. and there were maybe 30 or 40 people in church.Services went on as usual with the significantly smaller crowd. Talbott soon found out that his congregation that daywasn't as small as he imagined it.I heard later how many people listened to the broadcast, even from other churches, Talbott said.All that was possible with the help of WEOL, whose own anniversary is an achievement.See WEOL, C2
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Elyria, Ohio, US
Fri, Oct 17, 2008
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