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Ellsworth, Maine – WERU Community Radio Fundraiser -- 7/19/2012
7:00pm - 9:00pm
WERU Community Radio Presents…
An Evening with Jim Hightower & Friends
Thursday, July 19th at 7 p.m.
at the Grand Auditorium
Maine Street, Ellsworth, Maine
Hightower will be joined by artist and activist Robert Shetterly, who will display his Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits, and by and folk singers Becky & Rob McCall.
Tickets are $15 per person, free for kids 12 and under.
Order tickets directly by calling The Grand at 667-9500 or order online at www.grandonline.org.
Hightower’s Common Sense Commentaries can be heard on WERU Community Radio (89.9 Blue Hill & 99.9 Bangor) every weekday at 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
More information is at www.weru.org.
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