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WKBW-TV Buffalo Raised $1 million for the Variety Kids Telethon


Topic: Children’s Issues
Posted on 3/7/2016

E.W. Scripps’ ABC affiliate WKBW-TV Buffalo raised $1 million in the Variety Kids Telethon, held March 5 to benefit the Women and Children’s Hospital. The telethon featured Ashton Ross Smith, who battled a severe respiratory infection and pneumonia when he was six weeks old. Ross and countless other children are now thriving because of the care they received at the hospital.



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