CLEANING UP!

    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2022

               CLEANING UP!

   I want to join the millions, or

thousands, or hundreds, or handful

of people who realize that October

2nd. is National Custodial Workers

Recognition Day!

   Well, at least YOU know now!

   This day has special meaning to

me because I was once in the ranks

of those who clean up after everybody

else has gone home for the day. I was

a janitor!

    In fact, I got my big start in radio

as a custodial worker. After my clean

up work was complete at WTHT in

Hazleton, and the station was off the

air for the day, I used to play around

with the control board and the

turntables. Then, when someone got

sick, I was the only other person other

than those with existing shifts, that

knew how to work the equipment!

   That's how I got on the air......after

the restrooms were cleaned of course!

To this day I can't stand to see a paper

towel tossed on the floor. I've just got

to pick it up!

    Area radio actually featured another

custodial worker. Remember "Emerson,

the Main-tain-ence Man" from WARM?

Voiced by radio veteran Stan Neishel.

Unfortunately, we just lost Stan awhile

back. A real loss!

Emerson's humor cleated laughs all

over WARMland. I'm not sure if he,

like me, however, ever really had to

use a mop and the dustpan!

     So let's hear it today for the men

and women who scrub the floors and

the toilets and make sure there are

plenty of paper towels for the rest of

us to dispose of properly.

     Hope I can make my wife understand

I retired from that job many years ago,

and that all your NEWS is good!