KUPD listeners can ‘Adopt a Roadie’
KUPD is urging listeners to Adopt A Roadie in a new promotion aimed at helping events workers whose livelihood has been impacted by the COVID-19 closures of the past 11 months.
The hard-rock station will hold food drives through March at select Safeway and Albertsons locations as well as a drive-through distribution to support Musically Fed in its mission to provide food and essentials to local live event workers in dire need.
Partners include #DrinkInAZ, Jack Daniels, Sweet James and Safeway/Albertsons Nourishing Neighbors Community Relief.
The food-collection campaign will span six weeks from Feb. 15 through
March 26, culminating in a drivethrough distribution event at the end of March hosted by Rhino Staging and Video West.
Ninety-eight families with members who are stagehands, audio and visual techs, riggers, and forklift drivers who make live events possible will receive boxes filled with dry goods collected during the campaign, as well as produce and protein from Resurrection Street Ministry.
Financial support from Nourishing Neighbors Community Relief will make it possible to provide food for all 98 families.
With an average of 6 people in a family, this promotion will provide meals for approximately 600 people.
Complete details, including a food items requested, can be list of heard weekdays on-air with Fitz Madrid from 2 to 7 p.m. or by visiting 98kupd.com/adopt-a-roadie/.
Collections will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays at the following Safeway and Albertsons locations:
Feb.
Phoenix.
February 24: 4316 S. Signal Butte Road, Mesa.
March 3: 3800 W. Happy
Road, Glendale.
March 10: 1951 W. Baseline Road, Mesa.
March 17: 12320 N. 83rd Ave., Peoria.
17:
340
E.
McDowell
Road,
Valley
March 24: 6965 N. Hayden Road, Scottsdale.
Families in need of assistance can call 480-951-1882 to secure their spot for